Three simple steps. 1. Read Douglas Crockford's Javascript: The Good Parts (Alternatively you can watch his lectures on Yahoo Theater) 2. Read Nicholas Zakas'

Three simple steps. 1. Read Douglas Crockford's Javascript: The Good Parts (Alternatively you can watch his lectures on Yahoo Theater) 2. Read Nicholas Zakas' Maintainable Javascript and Scalable Javascript. Trust be both these books will make a great difference to the way you write your javascript code. The next step should be to contribute to some open source JS frameworks. I will suggest jQuery or YUI. You need not always write code, you can begin with improvements to the documentation and later move on to submitting actual code.