Sams Teach Yourself E-Commerce Programming with ASP in 21 Days [Paperback]

Stephen Walther (Author), Steve Banick (Author), Jonathan Levine (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0672318989 | ISBN-13: 978-0672318986 | Publication Date: May 1, 2000

The friendly, tutorial style of Sams Teach Yourself E-Commerce Programming with ASP in 21 Days empowers you to create your own online stores quickly and easily. Using online-proven methods, Stephen Walther, an expert e-commerce developer, provides you with an understanding of online commerce applications, then guides you through the use of VBScript and ASP's built-in objects, enabling you to create your own dynamic, database-driven e-commerce solutions. This book does not stop at just creating the online store. The author teaches you to create order tracking systems, manage advertising, create store reports, personalize the shopping experience and much more.

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The friendly, tutorial style of Sams Teach Yourself E-Commerce Programming with ASP in 21 Days empowers you to create your own online stores quickly and easily. Using online-proven methods, Stephen Walther, an expert e-commerce developer, provides you with an understanding of online commerce applications, then guides you through the use of VBScript and ASP's built-in objects, enabling you to create your own dynamic, database-driven e-commerce solutions. This book does not stop at just creating the online store. The author teaches you to create order tracking systems, manage advertising, create store reports, personalize the shopping experience and much more.

Product Details

• Paperback: 624 pages
• Publisher: Sams (May 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672318989
• ISBN-13: 978-0672318986
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.5 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #934,319 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great introduction to ASP, August 18, 2000

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David Peterson (Queensland, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself E-Commerce Programming with ASP in 21 Days (Paperback)

This book starts out excellent. I was a beginner at ASP programming so everything was well written and logical. Using this book I have been able to complete my first e-commerce store. There are a lot of great examples and they are also explained well. One part that is lacking is the logging in before you can add to the cart. This is done to avoid session variables, but I think it would turn away a LOT of customers. The author needs to point this out. I programmed my site to allow people to add without logging in and log in only when they are ready to buy. It was extra work, because none of the examples include this.

Later on in the book, different sections are written by different authors and you can tell. The writing style shifts dramatically and it is no longer as clearly written as the first part. The examples don't follow a consistent look any longer. Also, some of the example code isn't even on the CD and the code isn't even in the book (p. 280). The book says the code is too long to include in the book so it just references a few sections and then tells you the rest is on the CD. Nothing. The put the code on the SAMS site, but it took them awhile. I paid a lot of money for this book and it would be nice if they had just ONE person to proof read the examples and the writing before it was printed.

Overall this was a great book. Other than a few chapters in the middle, it was very well written and thought out. I would highly recommend it to beginners like I was or to anyone working on an e-commerce site.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another excellent SAMS - Easy to understand and implement, July 28, 2000

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David Segrove "DinA" (Phoenix, AZ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself E-Commerce Programming with ASP in 21 Days (Paperback)

I had read the SAMS ASP in 24 hours book which was an excellent start to ASP. This book would have been just as good to start with and it is a lot more in-depth. Of course, the focus is e-commerce and you are taken through building an online store. The examples are easy to follow and the text is well presented and easy to understand (especially for people who hate technical books).

If you are looking for an introduction to ASP and have not yet purchased the SAMS 24 hour book, consider this one instead. They do cover a lot of the things that the other book has in it. Towards the back end, they have examples of email forwarding from forms and other bits and pieces that are not directly related to e-commerce, but were the reasons I got the other book.

If you are trying to build a full-blown store online, start here. It won't get any easier than this!

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Online stores made easy, May 3, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself E-Commerce Programming with ASP in 21 Days (Paperback)

Knowing only a limited amount of VB script as a starting point to ASP this book gave a step by step approach to designing and working an online store. The ease of the indiviual tasks and explaination made 'Learning' this new language fun together with being prodctive. Fully recomended for anyone wanting to create an online store or learn the basics of ASP Programing.