Customer Reviews

Professional Asp Techniques for Webmasters (Wrox Professional Guides)

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If you are a webmaster or a ASP developer who deals with the whole project, from design to deployment, this is the #1 book I would recommend to you! It helped me a great deal for the work I have done. The book covers all the aspects of the ASP-based packages that webmasters and top ASP team leaders concern about.

If you are a new programmer trying to learn ASP syntax, however, it might help more if you read Professional ASP Programmer's Reference, another book in the series, before using this book.

It's one thing to learn ASP, it's another to put its many techniques into practice on a real commerce site.

Homer's book is really about the Wrox site, and how it is set up and maintained. It's full of useful tips, and its eclectic coverage is exactly what you would expect for this type of study. As other readers have noted, it's not an ASP tutorial, but advice for those who already know the subject. Several of the techniques discussed have since found their way onto sites I maintain.

I would have to say it's one of the most enjoyable and stimulating technical books I've read in quite a long time.

This is a book for webmasters without a high speed internet connection. Wrox's library for ASP is excellent but this book stands out as a brick (I'm currently using it to keep my stack of takeout menus from falling over). Many of these techniques can be found online at many fine ASP websites. Its not a bad book. It lacks focus and many of the topics can be easily covered in a few articles.

I think this is a great book...I have read far too many others that are nothing but recycled material, screenshots, and pointing out the obvious. Mr. Homer has done a thorough job of explaining why and how things work, plus he relates it to the real world of business. A fine effort...money well spent.

I bought this book based on Alex Homer's great job on Professional Active Server Pages. Lots of great examples and tips. While not all the tips are for everyone, there will always be something for your particular situation.

This book is not, repeat not, a book to get to learn ASP for the web.

It only covers some techniques to tweak your code, speed up applications, etc..

It has two very big sections on SQL Server, and Dynamic Web sites from databases. Otherwise, it has very little on ASP.

Out of the dozen or 15 Wrox Press books we have at the office, this one is the only one I regret buying. If you own any other Wrox Press ASP books, DON'T BUY THIS ONE -- IT'S REDUNDANT to the nth degree! Truly, if you own ANY ASP books, or have any ASP experience, whatsoever, this book's probably not worth your money.

Prof. ASP for Webmasters is a superbly written and presented book with page after page of excellent advice, tips, and techniques. However, it is NOT a book with which to learn ASP. As the title suggests, it is a book to show the IIS Web administrator how to use ASP to make his/her life easier as well as add some excellent functionality to his/her Web sites. If you are a NT Webmaster this book is for you.

I first bought the book 'professional ASP 2.0' which is highly rated, and I agree good. This book, however, fills in things to make it work and manage the site. Security is a big one. How the interface to SQL server, ADO works. Handling browser versions.

This is a best ASP book I've seen so far. I learned a lot from it. It has a lot of real world examples to get you going right way. Highly recommanded.