Web Site Assistant

The last five years has seen an exponential growth in the use of shockwave and flash animations in creating websites. The old tried and trusted techniques such as D/HTML are slowy moving over to make room for this newer multimedia delivery vehicle. Scripting, such as Javascript, is viewed with disdain by some and ignored by others. Yet the people who advocate the use of flash/shockwave in creating multimedia-rich sites are not asking the right question: Is all that glitters gold?

Think of DHTML as not a singular technology but a combination of three existing technologies glued together by the Document Object Model (DOM):

 1. HTML - For creating text and image links and other page elements.

 2. CSS - Style Sheets for further formatting of text and html plus other added features such as positioning and layering content.

 3. JavaScript - The programming language that allows you to accesses and dynamically control the individual properties of both HTML and Style Sheets.