A user-friendly introduction to Web content development and protocols -- the perfect starting point for anyone who wants to become a Web professional. Start with the basics: how the Internet works, how Web sites are organized, how search engines find you, and how to choose the right business applications for your site. Review the fundamentals of content design, including HTML, tables, frames, and forms; and basic site development and maintenance. Finally, enhance your site with CGI scripts, server-side includes, password protection, customized error messages, and simple cascading style sheets. Part of Pearson PTR Interactive's new Foundations of Web Site Architecture Series: user-friendly, interactive workbooks that deliver the core Web skills newcomers need most. Endorsed by the World Organization of Webmasters, and supported by a Web site with sample pages, code, and exercises!
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To design and maintain Web sites on the very popular Apache Web Server on Unix or Linux, beginners need to know a little of this and a little of that. Understanding Web Development starts from square one, with an extremely concise series of tutorials and hands-on exercises that teaches the skills needed to run Apache Web sites successfully. Aimed at the novice Webmaster, this book contains the essentials of Unix administration and HTML.
The most notable thing about this book is its simplicity. The author, a longtime teacher of Web development, has condensed essential administrative and HTML tutorials into very short sections and simple hands-on exercises. These tutorials are the real reason to buy this book. Master common Unix commands and basic HTML design firsthand with a series of easy-to-handle tasks. The book covers only the most essential information for the would-be Webmaster, such as using ftp and telnet for remote administration, common Unix shell commands, and an introductory-level HTML tutorial. One standout chapter shows how to restrict permissions on Web content for certain users on Apache (using the .htaccess configuration file), and how to add password protection to Web pages. Changing permissions is an essential administrative task, and the books explains just what you need to know.
Unix administration can be daunting to the novice. Instead of trying to be comprehensive, Understanding Web Development gives the bare essentials to get up and running with Web administration and simple Web design. It's a great choice for a first book about what's available on the Apache/Unix Web platform. --Richard Dragan
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- Endorsed by the World Organization of Webmasters!
Want to be a Web professional? Start right here!
Understanding Web Development is the perfect starting point for anyone who wants to become a Web professional! Get a great jumpstart with hands-on labs and exercises covering everything you need to know upfront—backed with simple explanations, practical techniques, and a companion Web site full of resources just for you!
Discover the essentials of Web content design and development, from HTML to basic site security! Coverage includes:
- Basic HTML formatting, tables, and frames
- Just enough UNIX to be comfortable with a UNIX-based Web server
- Basic Web site management and maintenance skills
By the time you're finished, you'll even be comfortable with advanced techniques: CGI scripts, server-side includes, password protection, customized error messages, and more. Web design and development is one of the world's fastest-growing, most lucrative fields—and Understanding Web Development is just the ticket to get you in the door!
Includes access to a FREE companion Web site that provides additional practice questions, as well as a message board where you can interact with other students.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Good overview for a solid foundation,
By Mr. JKW "jkw" (Honolulu, Hawai'i) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Understanding Web Development Interactive Workbook (Textbook Binding)
Arlyn Hubbell's "Understanding Web Development" provides for a solid grounding into the world of web design, HTML and the basic web technologies. For a beginner, this book is a good start to understanding how the World Wide Web works and what it takes to publish documents to it. For those who are more advanced in the field this book will probably not tell you anything new and you can take a pass on it (and stop reading here). If you are looking for the basics though, you've come to the right place.THE CONTENTS: Here are the topics that Hubbell addresses: 1. Introduction to Webmaster's UNIX including FTP and managing your directories 2. Pre-planning your web side including analyzing your audience and laying out your web site 3. Basic HTML tags 4. HTML text tags, image tags, lists and background tags 5. Working with Tables 6. Working with Frames 7. Designing HTML Forms 8. Server-Side technologies 9. Restricting web site access through .htaccess 10. Overview of CSS THE ANALYSIS: Overall, this book is a great teaching and learning tool to the basics of web design. Hubbell has struck that fine balance between covering in good detail the basics of what you need to know versus information overload. Overall the book is very thorough and takes you through the web design process for beginning to end and it manages to do so without overwhelming you. Each chapter is broken up into small lessons and at the end there are exercises for you to follow. All of them are well designed and good you and good grounding into the basics. Hubbell also does a great job of presenting the various HTML tags. She goes over what they are and also thoroughly discusses the various switches that accompany them and their functions. She also includes the source code as well as a screen shot of what the completed web pages look like. While not going into things completely in depth on the source code as some other books do, this book accomplishes its task well, giving you a "basic" understanding of HTML. Students can easily go through and pick apart and learn the code on their own from the basics that Hubbell provides (which ultimately when you learn a programming language you're going to have to do anyway, pick it apart and do trial and error...). THE VERDICT: Overall, Hubbell does a fine job of covering the various technologies and issues that deal with web development. This book was used as a text for an e-commerce web design course I took during the Fall of 2002. Whether you are studying this subject independently or whether you are an instructor looking to use this book for your course, Hubbell's "Understanding Web Development" is a fine choice. Highly Recommended
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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I loved it!,
By S. Young (United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Understanding Web Development Interactive Workbook (Textbook Binding)
The material was very relevant and the text was easy to read. I'd recommend it to anyone interested in a Web career.
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