JavaScript for Web Designers

- Hi, I'm Joe Chellman, and welcome to JavaScript for Web Designers. A web designer's job is to use all the tools at our disposal to make the best, most engaging and usable websites and apps we can manage. By making JavaScript a key part of our toolboxes, the palette of experiences we can create online becomes almost limitless. JavaScript is the programming language of the web, and becoming comfortable with it will allow you to do things with your websites that you just couldn't do otherwise. In this course I'll introduce you to the basics of writing JavaScript both in a browser and a text editor.

I'll introduce you to some of the terminology you'll need to understand how the language works. Then we'll start working on some simple, but useful projects. I'll show you how to use JavaScript to work with a shopping cart, responding to the user's choices, checking for errors, and making a calculation. Next I'll show you how to work with time, enhancing an event page with a live calendar and clock. Finally, I'll introduce the Google Maps API and you'll see how easy it is to add interactive content to a website using the power of an external service. As a web designer, you might not have written much of your own JavaScript.

Maybe it's even seemed intimidating in the past. You'll start to see that working with JavaScript in modern browsers can be quite painless, maybe even enjoyable, so let's get started.