Web Application Development Essentials

Web Application Development Essentials teaches you how to create great web applications using web standards technologies and ASP.NET. The book brings together the main technologies for application development on the Web: programming languages, frameworks, and libraries. Learning all of these topics to a high level is not easy, but don't worry. There is no need to learn all of these single topics very deeply to be a productive web developer. What is needed is a basic understanding of the role of each technology or framework in web application development.

Web Application Development Essentials provides you with a working knowledge of the essential parts of each technology, and gives real-world examples of them to produce effective web solutions. Using this approach, this book allows you to quickly gain the knowledge and skills required to be an effective web developer. The book also contains exercises throughout so you can see your web skills growing.

This book provides:

- Oneresource to learn many common technologies and frameworks for web application development such as HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, ASP.NET and Ajax

- Not too focused on any specific technologies, however sufficient to start building serious applications

- Full examples of the use of each technique and technology in working web applications.