Creating Commercial Web Pages (Laura Lemay's Web Workshop Series for Mac and PC) [Paperback]

Laura Lemay (Author), Brian K. Murphy (Author), Edmund T. Smith (Author)

Book Description

Series: Laura Lemay's Web Workshop Series | Publication Date: October 1996

Via the Web, companies can offer on-line catalogues, product information, customer service and the ability to order goods. To do this, they need to understand HTML, CGI, and Java. This manual covers the required information, and the accompanying CD-ROM offers examples of commercial Web-pages.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Another entry in the fantastic Laura Lemay's Web Workshop series, this book is required reading for anyone who wants to build an effective business web site. Subjects covered include creating catalogs and shopping carts, secure electronic payments, using web pages to track orders and fulfillment and advertising-supported sites. Lemay is brilliant at balancing design and technical matters. A CD-ROM provides related software, utilities and demos. For very experienced and advanced users.

From the Publisher

Filled with sample Web pages, this book shows how to create commercial-grade Web pages using HTML, CGI, and Java. In the classic clear style of Laura Lemay, author of the best-selling Teach Yourself Java, it details not only how to create the page, but how to apply proven principles of design that will make the Web page a marketing tool. - Teaches how to use HTML, CGI, and Java

- Illustrates the various corporate uses of Web technology-catalogues, customer service, and product ordering

- CD-ROM includes all the templates in the book, plus HTML editors, graphics software, CGI forms, and more

Product Details

• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: SOS Free Stock (October 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1575211262
• ISBN-13: 978-1575211268
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,618,845 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Save your money, October 8, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Creating Commercial Web Pages (Laura Lemay's Web Workshop Series for Mac and PC) (Paperback)

This book contains information that was probably more relevant when it was first written. Most is passe by today's standards. The links referenced in the book for the support site, and that for a shopping cart are both dead.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Disorganized, but never the less useful tips in the Book, September 16, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Creating Commercial Web Pages (Laura Lemay's Web Workshop Series for Mac and PC) (Paperback)

The disorganization of this book is amazing considering that this is a Laura Lemay book. Do not buy this book if you wish to create enterprise solutions. The content of the book is more relevant for the mom-and-pop web site designer. However, what makes this book useful is that it contains a number of useful tips on the design issues and tools for a web page. Many better tools are now available than those mentioned in the book, but that is not Lemay et. al's fault. The design factor becomes important since now we are no longer concerned with learning HTML (the generators take care of that). If you are a mom-and-pop web site creator then you might find this book useful for the many useful tips. Sanjay Bapna http://jewel.morgan.edu/~sbapna/

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Lots of Tips, February 11, 1999

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Steven A. Bell "Even Keel" (Kemp, Texas USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Creating Commercial Web Pages (Laura Lemay's Web Workshop Series for Mac and PC) (Paperback)

Gosh! I found this book useful and am amazed at the flames of other readers. I found information here that none of the other (Que, Sams, Wrox, etc.) books had. For example: Mailto, Submit-it. In this it solved some problems for commercial pages I had developed that I could not (repeate could not) find in any other book (or even the news groups). The only reason I graded it down was due to the organization. There I do agree with the other readers. It would seem that this book was rushed out the door to print.