Webmaster in a Nutshell

In a Nutshell

by Stephen Spainhour

Do you have too many books about the Web and not enough space on your bookshelf? WebMaster in a Nutshell takes all the essential reference information for the Web and pulls it together into one slim volume. This book is a quick reference for anyone who does work on the Web - content providers, programmers, and administrators alike. WebMaster in a Nutshell covers:

HTML 3.2, the markup language for Web documents CGI, for creating interactive content on the Web JavaScript, a scripting language that can be embedded directly into HTML HTML extensions by Netscape Navigator 3.0 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 Examples and descriptions of the HTML tags for creating frames, tables, and fill-in forms HTTP 1.1, the underlying protocol that drives the Web Configuration for the Apache, NCSA, CERN, Netscape, and WebSite servers Perl 5, the programming language used most often for CGI WinCGI, the CGI interface for Windows-based programming languages Cookies, for maintaining state between multiple instances of CGI, Java, and JavaScript programs

WebMaster in a Nutshell breaks up these topics into concise, distinct chapters, designed to make it easy to find the information you want at a moment's notice. This is a book that anyone working seriously on the Web will find indispensable.

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

520 pages, 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)