WebMaster Macintosh, Second Edition: How to Build Your Own World-Wide Web Server Without Really Trying - Softcover

LeVitus, Bob; Evans, Gary R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0124456022 ISBN 13: 9780124456020

Publisher: Academic Press, 1997

Synopsis

In this second edition of the best-selling WebMaster Macintosh, every aspect of this fun and easy-to-read guide for turning a Macintosh into a World Wide Web server has been updated. Readers get the newest information on software, HTML editors, tools, and applications. Not only is the text completely updated -- with the authors' immensely entertaining and witty style in tact -- but the CD-ROM has also been completely overhauled to include new shareware and freeware which users will find extremely helpful.

* Includes a CD-ROM with all the shareware and freeware needed to set up a Web site, including a demo of WebSTAR server software, HTML editors, graphic tools, CGIs, scripting additions, and more
* Covers the nuts and bolts for connecting with an Internet service provider
* Describes all the setup and configuration information needed for a Web server, including important and new details about security, clickable maps and buttons, client-server architecture, and CGIs (common gateway interfaces) and how they connect to common database applications
* Contains everything needed to write great HTML code for Web page design
* Provides a wealth of WebMaster information, such as useful Internet mailing lists, newsgroups, key Web site locations, and pointers to Internet resources every WebMaster would need
* Features interviews with successful WebMasters

About this title

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: Academic Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0124456022
• ISBN 13: 9780124456020
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 525