Tommy Olsson has a great new article up on the new-look Accessites website today, the title speaks for itself so head on over for the detailed article.

I’ve bought a few JavaScript books in the distant past but I just couldn’t get my head around it so I consigned myself to either lifting it from a resource website or avoid the problem altogether.

This book however is another kettle of fish. I found the concept of the Document Object Model easy to understand — especially with strong Cascading Style Sheet experience behind me and Jeremy explains how to write JavaScript to manipulate the model in a very easy to understand way. All that’s left now is for me to recognise where I can responsibly apply this long sought after knowledge.

Buy it now safe in the knowledge that you are buying into best practice for an accessible and available Internet.

Buy now from Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr or Amazon.co.jp

I actually spotted this via Flickr at the weekend… Faruk AteÅŸ over at Kurafire has released version 8 of his website with some real sweet animation. What’s particularly interesting is that he’s used CSS and JavaScript to achieve said effects. He’s dubbed this FACE - Faruk’s Animated CSS Enhancements and has made the whole thing available in a zip file for you to try at home.

There are some wonderful effects going on in places and what appeals to me is the web standards approach - everything degrades nicely with JavaScript disabled and also that you’re not locked into using something like Flash that requires a plugin that has accessibility problems.

Head over to KuraFire Network now and keep an eye out for the 21 effects he and Tim Hofman have created.

*gasp* It’s full of stars….