Dynamic Web Publishing Unleashed, Second Edition (2nd Edition) [Paperback]

Brian A. Croft (Author), Rick Darnell (Author), Shelly Powers (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 157521363X | ISBN-13: 978-1575213637 | Publication Date: December 18, 1997 | Edition: 2 Sub

Over 1,400 pages of information and solutions, this book is the most comprehensive guide to Web publishing on the market. Expert authors provide thorough coverage of advanced Web publishing technologies, including HTML, Java, CGI, VBScript, and JavaScript. This book is loaded with information on the following topics: - Hypertext Markup Language. - Web Page Design. - Style Sheets. - Dynamic HTML. - HTML Forms. - Advanced Layout with Tables and Frames. - Client Side Scripting (JavaScript, VBScript, Image maps, etc). - Java 1.1. - ActiveX. - CGI Server Side Scripting. - Push Technologies (Castanet, CDF, and Netcaster).

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From the Publisher

Over 850 pages of information and solutions, this book is the most comprehensive guide to Web publishing on the market. Expert authors provide thorough coverage of advanced Web publishing technologies, including HTML, Java, CGI, and JavaScript. This book is loaded with information on the following topics: Hypertext Markup Language, Web Page Design, Style Sheets, Dynamic HTML, HTML Forms, Advanced Layout with Tables and Frames, Client Side Scripting (JavaScript, Image maps, etc), Java 1.1, CGI Server Side Scripting, and Push Technologies (Castanet, CDF, and Netcaster).

Includes all the information readers need to publish on the World Wide Web.

Provides in-depth coverage of HTML 4, Java, JavaScript, CGI, Dynamic HTML. Explains how to integrate technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets into Web publications.

From the Back Cover

Over 1,400 pages of information and solutions, this book is the most comprehensive guide to Web publishing on the market. Expert authors provide thorough coverage of advanced Web publishing technologies, including HTML, Java, CGI, VBScript, and JavaScript. This book is loaded with information on the following topics: - Hypertext Markup Language. - Web Page Design. - Style Sheets. - Dynamic HTML. - HTML Forms. - Advanced Layout with Tables and Frames. - Client Side Scripting (JavaScript, VBScript, Image maps, etc). - Java 1.1. - ActiveX. - CGI Server Side Scripting. - Push Technologies (Castanet, CDF, and Netcaster).

Product Details

• Paperback: 844 pages
• Publisher: Sams; 2 Sub edition (December 18, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 157521363X
• ISBN-13: 978-1575213637
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,565,414 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Dead material, too much of too little, but good overview., June 29, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Dynamic Web Publishing Unleashed, Second Edition (2nd Edition) (Paperback)

Book suffers from the "lets try to cover it all in one book" syndrome. So you get too much of too little plus a lot of good space is wasted discussing things nobody uses. Lack of the ability to cut in the copyediting room. Great for an overview of major web development tools. Not great on getting a practical overall picture of what works and what does not with each tool. You could easily waste time using the wrong stuff.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good book to sort out which various web technologies, January 12, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Dynamic Web Publishing Unleashed, Second Edition (2nd Edition) (Paperback)

I was looking for a book to help me sort through which web technologies I should use (Active Server Pages, Java servlets, CGI, client vs server-side coding, scripting vs compiled code, etc.) in designing an online resource for my employer's web site. This book assumes some technical background to be easily readable. It is definitely an overview of the available technologies (not an in depth tutorial, although it does give a good sense of what it takes to work with each technology). I found it to be EXTREMELY helpful in explaining how the different web technologies relate and for getting a bird's eye view of how to work with each technology. This book was exactly what I needed to help me make an informed decision of which web technologies were right for the job I was faced with. After skimming the appropriate sections, I was ready to start planning the development work ahead of me. Before this book I was wondering whether there was some technology that I might be missing or whether I was indeed choosing the right method for what I had to do.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars I'd prefer elsewhere, February 5, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Dynamic Web Publishing Unleashed, Second Edition (2nd Edition) (Paperback)

Although this book is a decent overview of various topics, I don't like the book overall. I would be very frightened to find my pages looking like hers and I would refuse to look at sites like the pages represented here unless they provided life saving information. Her sense of using CSS1 style sheets seems to be to make the pages look much, much worse than those written with tables. Also, she chooses to show what style sheets can add to a page made with tables by trying to make the tables look very simplistic. Had she invested the same amount of coding in the tables examples as she did in the style sheets examples, the results would be far less distinctive and the results would actually work on all browsers instead of sporadically even with newer browsers. For instance including one image in a table example and then having a dozen in the style sheets - which has more potential to look good? This book, I've found, isn't even a particularly good reference. With the simple investment of a few icons she could have made information such as whether a tag is deprecated, or what version of HTML the code was introduced in or what browser versions the tags work with more quickly and easily known. It may be an okay reference, but it is my no means quick or complete. I bought this book for $15 and am barely happy with it at that price.