Where are we?

You know how to create basic HTML pages. The tags you’ve learned are at the heart of Web work.

In this lesson, you’ll start learning about interactivity. Some Web pages are static. All you can do is read what is on them. But many pages these days are interactive. Users can click on things, drag things, type into things. People are starting to expect pages that do more than just sit there.

Employers see interactive sites, too. Like Twitter, Facebook, and others. They say to their Webers, “Oo! Oo! Let’s make our pages do that!”

Webers who can’t create interactive pages are less employable than Webers who can.

This lesson’s goals

By the end of this lesson, you should:

• Know what JavaScript is, and how to include it on a page.

• Know how to plan a simple JavaScript program.

• Be able to tie JavaScript code to an event, like a click.

• Be able to write JavaScript to change things on a page.

• Know how to ask users questions, and respond to their answers.

Let’s get started.