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About Us
If you need Internet advice, you are in good hands. Wombat Web is run by husband and wife team, Jason and Sophie Manger. Jason is a best-selling Internet book author and journalist, software engineer and teacher. Sophie is a law librarian and expert in collating and indexing information. During her career she has worked at many of London's largest Law firms.

In the Beginning...
When Jason started Wombat Web, there were no graphical web browsers and no advertising for Internet-related skills in the national press, indeed Jason was the first person to advertise his Internet skills in the UK's Sunday Times newspaper, back in 1989. These were the days when companies did not even know what a "web site" was. At this time the "Web" was textual, and tools such as Gopher and WAIS (Wide Area Index Search) were popular. Websites were accessed using a text-based, command-driven interface, as of course was all of the Internet.

Working full-time in the Internet industry since 1993, Jason has designed and implemented a wide range of technical solutions for small business enterprises and blue chips alike, both working as a freelancer and for a range of London web design agencies and Internet Service Providers. Jason has coded the gamut of web applications, ranging from the banal to the ultra-sophisticated. An all-rounder, Jason can hand-code just about any application from memory, and often without any detailed specification.

The Author
In the early 1990's, starting during his postgraduate studies, Jason started to author many of the first European Internet books about the Internet and Web development. These have now been translated into over seven languages, including Russian, Hebrew and Japanese. Jason was also a regular contributor to many of the magazines and journals of the day, as well as National newspapers and specialist e-zines.

JavaScript Essentials JAVASCRIPT ESSENTIALS
The definitive guide (541+ pages) to Javascripting. This book is based on JavaScript API version 1.0, which is compatible with all Netscape/Microsoft versions, even today. The JavaScript syntax (now known as ECMAScript) is now used in environments including: WMLScript (Wireless Application Protocol), CFMLScript (Adobe ColdFusion), and Macromedia's ActionScript scripting language.

The emphasis in this book is on source-code. Coverage includes: LiveConnect, which allows Java applets and JavaScript programs to communicate with each other, dynamic images, mouse events, plug-in detection, in-line HTML attribute evaluation, dynamic HTML generation, and much more besides. Hundreds of code examples give the reader a thorough insight into this popular language and its syntax.

Essential Java* ESSENTIAL JAVA
A guide to the Java and JavaScript languages. Equal coverage of both technologies is provided, and the contents include: Objects, Properties, Event programming, JavaScript and HTML forms, Designing GUIs with Java's AWT library, Threads, Java Streams, Java & JavaScript Resources.

Essential Java was awarded a Book of the Month award by PC MAGAZINE, who said: "This is a clear, intelligently written book, packed with practical examples and highlighted tips both on Java and Netscape".

Jason's other books include:
  • JavaScript Essentials, Osborne McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0-07-882234-3, 1996, 1997.
  • Essential Java*, McGraw-Hill Europe, ISBN: 0-07-709292-9, 1996.
  • Netscape Navigator, McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 88-386-0348-0, 1995.
  • The World-Wide-Web, Mosaic and More, McGraw-Hill Europe, ISBN: 0-07-7079176, 1994.
  • The Essential Internet Information Guide, McGraw-Hill Europe, ISBN: 0-07-7079051, 1994.
  • Database Graphics Programming, Sigma Press, ISBN: 1-85058-504-0, 1992.
  • Unix™ - The Complete Book, Sigma Press, ISBN: 1-85058-219-X, 1991.

The Teacher
Jason taught Internet development techniques at The City of London & Guildhall University's new media facility. To date he has tutored over 500 mature students in a range of topics concentrated around the subject of computer programming and database integration. His students have included individual web developers, web design companies, and many household names. Jason's books have been used as course material on many Internet courses run by Colleges and Universities world-wide.

The Present Day...
Buena VistaJason and his family now reside in Andalucia, Spain, and continue to maintain clients world-wide. If you need a web-based solution we have the answers. We can bespoke create your requirements and we also re-engineer existing websites to use the latest and greatest technologies. We look forward to working with you. You can see a selection of our projects here.