Webmaster in a Nutshell, Third Edition

In a Nutshell

by Robert Eckstein

Today's Webmasters must be literate in a number of different--and ever-evolving-- languages and technologies. Webmaster in a Nutshell is meant as a tool for dealing with this demanding requirement. Although this title leans a bit toward freeware tools, it offers plenty of universal information as well. This guide briefly tours the Web and covers basic HTML, tables, forms, and frames in a series of quick reads. (This discussion offers just enough information to jog the memory to proper HTML usage.) You'll get in-depth coverage of cascading style sheets (CSS), the Extensible Markup Language (XML), JavaScript, HTTP, CGI, and Perl. Stephen Spainhour and Robert Eckstein explore CSS in brief but do cover the pending W3C standard. They also provide a refreshingly quick overview of XML. To present JavaScript, the book makes excellent use of diagrams to illustrate the object hierarchy and the way the language works with windows and frames.

Webmaster takes on a decidedly public domain slant in its presentation of server configuration, primarily aimed at the freeware Apache server, and PHP, the freeware server-side scripting language. Even if you don't code with these tools, however, this book offers plenty of industry-standard reference. --Stephen Plain

Genres: Reference, Computer Science, Programming, Technical, Computers, Web, Nonfiction

Paperback

First published October 1, 1996

Reviews

[Zack]

this book is so old, it's probably not worth noting.

[Rebekah · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this as I was first getting started on the web and to this day I think a lot of the "common" sense things I know I actually learned from this book.

[RJ]

Webmaster in a Nutshell, Third Edition by Stephen Spainhour (2002)