Web Head: A Mac Guide to the World Wide Web [Paperback] Mara, Mary Jane and Daniels, Jerry

Opening up a new area of the Internet to Mac users, a guide directs users through the basics of the Web, explains public-domain software and browsing with Mosaic, and includes a disk containing Web Walker and Mosaic. Original. (All Users).

Web Head shows you how to get the most from the World Wide Web, using plain talk that beginners will understand and online veterans will appreciate. Web Head begins with a short history of the Web and explains its relationship to the Internet. The book includes in-depth tours of the three leading Web browsers for the Macintosh - Netscape, MacMosaic and MacWeb. The book also explains the basics behind all Web browsers, so you'll be ready even when the next hot browser hits the scene. Throughout the book, there's plenty of practical information on such topics as plugging into the Net, fine tuning one's system, external helper applications, navigation techniques, writing Web pages and setting up a Web server.

With traffic on the World Wide Web doubling every four months - triple the overall rate of the Internet - the Web is rapidly becoming the world's largest interactive, multi-media storehouse. Its popularity stems in part from its point-and-click interface and its superb use of multimedia.

The Web is being hailed as the long-awaited key to widespread use of the Internet. Web Head helps readers explore the frontiers of this rapidly evolving hypermedia network while also showing them how to carve out a piece of the territory for themselves.

Web Head begins with a short history of the Web and explains its relationship to the Internet. It also offers an in-depth look at the three leading programs used to browse the Web - Netscape, MacMosaic, and MacWeb. Throughout the book, there are plenty of practical tips on plugging into the Net, setting up one's system, external helper applications, navigation techniques, writing Web pages, setting up a Macintosh Web server, and much more.

There's also a list of key Web addresses, a glossary of Web terms, and a list of Internet service providers. Like the Web itself, this book can be read straight through or the reader can jump from chapter to chapter, following their own needs and interests.