Webmaster Macintosh: How to Build Your Own World-Wide Server Without Really Trying/Book and Cd-Rom - Softcover

Levitus, Bob; Evans, Jeff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0124455743 ISBN 13: 9780124455740

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub, 1995

Synopsis

This book is a fast and easy guide for turning your Macintosh into a World Wide Web site. With this book and the enclosed CD-ROM, you can create your own Web page in a matter of hours: a brief overview of the origin and rapid growth of the World Wide Web; the nuts and bolts details you need to connect with your Internet provider; everything you need to know to write great HTML code for Web page design; all the setup and configuration information you need for your Web server, including important details about security, clickable maps and buttons, client-server architecture, and CGIs (common gateway interfaces) and how they connect to common database applications; interviews with WebMasters such as Chuck Shotton, developer of WebSTAR (formerly MacHTTP); a WebMaster Web site that will keep you up to date with all the latest tools, applications, and Web resources at your fingertips; a wealth of WebMaster information, such as useful Internet mailing lists, newsgroups, key Web site locations, and pointers to every Internet resource a WebMaster would ever need; and all the tips you need to maximize your Web site's performance, as well as how to announce it to the world.
And if that's not enough...CD-ROM enclosed.

About this title

Review

WebMaster, Second Edition, is an informative and often entertaining guide to building and running a Web site. This volume is useful for potential Web masters who wish to run their site off of a Macintosh. While it is geared toward beginners, WebMaster covers every aspect of creating and maintaining your site, including setting up the server software, writing good HTML, and adding goodies like multimedia, Java applets, and ActiveX controls. More experienced readers will definitely benefit from the interviews and commentary by professional Web masters, as well as the comprehensive appendix, which contains a list of standard and proposed HTML tags, a terms glossary, and a selection of other resources for more information. If you're just getting started and don't know where to begin, this book will help you earn your Web master wings in no time. The included CD-ROM contains several server programs, HTML authoring applications, graphics tools, CGIs, and server plug-ins.

About the Author

Bob LeVitus is the author of 25 computer books, a columnist for MacUser and the Houston Chronicle, and one of the best-known authorities on the Macintosh in the world.

Gary R. Evans is the co-principal of Bora Software, a corporation that specializes in automated cashflow models, and was the primary Programmer for the Bora Credit Evaluation and Cashflow Model used by the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to train bank regulators. Evans is the author of several books, including Macroeconomics (with Howard Sherman), and is a professor at Harvey Mudd College and the Peter F. Drucker Graduate Management Center. His area of specialty is fiscal and monetary policy and automated (computerized) information systems.

Edition details

• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0124455743
• ISBN 13: 9780124455740
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 299