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pieux i think ur in ur late 20s or early 30s

That would be a good deduction for someone to make after looking at my resume and seeing when I went to college. Besides, DJ DJ was tongue-in-cheek... not being into the current dance scene, I couldn't begin to tell you what a cool name would be. ...but I bet you there aren't any other DJ DJs. ...and Señor is just my stab at semantics, since it sounds virtually identical to Senior, and I'm male.

DJ DJ... nah


And how did you know that I looked at your biography?

If not DJ DJ, how about DJ++?

...and I didn't get to be Señor Member just by poking fun at Canucks, you know.

DJ++, lol that's good, but not for a DJ name.

How did you get the Señor?

I told you... I'm goooood.

That, and I was at the right place at the right time.

If you're so gooood, I'm writing a beginner DHTML tutorial for www.spoono.com . What approach should I take?

Well, the approach I would take is to provide a dozen or more links to the existing ones. However, being that your aim is probably to generate content, I would read three existing tutorials and blend the best parts of each (in your own words). Don't just provide solutions to problems or code... instead, teach the reader how to think in DHTML for themselves. That's why I like O'Reilly's books over the Dummies series so much. O'Reilly's books don't offer cookie-cutter solutions. Instead, they actually teach you the topics and get you to think in the particular language, etc.

Pretty pointles post

I meant, what should I cover?

I have: adding layers to a page, setting they're ids, and defining they're CSS properties. Next is the javascript section: using javascript to change the properties/content of the layer.

Should I add, change, remove something?

How do you DO that?

You are already writing tutorials on something I only HEARD about a month ago.

I'm so jealous.



CS

Ask a pointless question, get a pointless answer.

DJ: It would be wise to stroke the ego of those whose help you seek, rather than belittle that which they offer. The number one thing people get hung up on, it seems, that noone has done a really good job explaining, are the various DOMs and object detection. I would start there, because that's going to be a few pages of tutorial right there.

CS: It seems to me, there's a lot of things you only heard about a month ago. Yet, only DHTML makes you jealous? *ducks*

He's talking about www.spoono.com

What's so hard about object detection???? I can explain it in one line.

Huh? Who's talking about spoono? ...I can't begin to tell you what is so hard about object detection, but you wouldn't believe how many people I run across that still try to specifically detect what browser someone is using via the User Agent header.

ummmmm

ie4=(document.all&&!document.getElementById?1:0);
ie5=(document.all&&document.getElementById?1:0);
ns4=(document.layers?1:0);
ns6=(!document.all&&document.getElementById?1:0);

Alright, wiseguy. I know how to do it, you're not teaching me. Also, what you should do is explain the reason behind the code and choosing to use that methodology, rather than just providing the code. ...and while you're at it, you should probably explain the shortened if statement syntax ...beginners tend to have problems with that concept as well.

So, who's talking about spoono?