The Ultimate Web Developer's Sourcebook

From basic information on how to manipulate GIF images to sophisticated guidelines on how to connect a database to an Internet site, The Ultimate Web Developer's Sourcebook is the first one-stop reference that delivers all the answers. Complete, authoritative, and up-to-date, it's packed with:

* Clear explanations--plus mini-tutorials--of crucial Web-related topics and technologies * Hot Internet tips and tricks, contributed by 30 industry experts * Sample code to help users quickly solve problems, along with links for finding more code * Screen shots to further clarify the explanations

From design issues to coding fundamentals to server and performance dynamics, Internet and intranet developers will turn to this all-encompassing reference for specific guidance on how to:

Locate freebies for a Web site * animate images * add e-commerce to a site * use meta tags * acquire and manage content * audit Web-based systems for security, usability, and privacy * use ASPClasses, Perl, and Voice XML * code cookies * write a shopping cart system using JavaScript * use an Application Service Provider to host a database * produce a static HTML table * perform Web site maintenance * handle applet to server communication * and much more.

Jessica Keyes (New York, NY) is president of the software manufacturer New Art Technologies, Inc. and a professor of computer science at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She is the author of 14 books, including How to Be a Successful Internet Consultant and The Ultimate Multimedia Handbook.