WebMaster Macintosh, Second Edition: How to Build Your Own World-Wide Web Server Without Really Trying [Paperback]

Bob LeVitus (Author), Gary R. Evans (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0124456022 | ISBN-13: 978-0124456020 | Publication Date: February 10, 1997 | Edition: 2nd

In this second edition of the best-selling WebMaster Macintosh, every aspect of this fun and easy-to-read guide for turning a Macintosh into a World Wide Web server has been updated. Readers get the newest information on software, HTML editors, tools, and applications. Not only is the text completely updated -- with the authors' immensely entertaining and witty style in tact -- but the CD-ROM has also been completely overhauled to include new shareware and freeware which users will find extremely helpful.

* Includes a CD-ROM with all the shareware and freeware needed to set up a Web site, including a demo of WebSTAR server software, HTML editors, graphic tools, CGIs, scripting additions, and more
* Covers the nuts and bolts for connecting with an Internet service provider
* Describes all the setup and configuration information needed for a Web server, including important and new details about security, clickable maps and buttons, client-server architecture, and CGIs (common gateway interfaces) and how they connect to common database applications
* Contains everything needed to write great HTML code for Web page design
* Provides a wealth of WebMaster information, such as useful Internet mailing lists, newsgroups, key Web site locations, and pointers to Internet resources every WebMaster would need
* Features interviews with successful WebMasters

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

WebMaster, Second Edition, is an informative and often entertaining guide to building and running a Web site. This volume is useful for potential Web masters who wish to run their site off of a Macintosh. While it is geared toward beginners, WebMaster covers every aspect of creating and maintaining your site, including setting up the server software, writing good HTML, and adding goodies like multimedia, Java applets, and ActiveX controls. More experienced readers will definitely benefit from the interviews and commentary by professional Web masters, as well as the comprehensive appendix, which contains a list of standard and proposed HTML tags, a terms glossary, and a selection of other resources for more information. If you're just getting started and don't know where to begin, this book will help you earn your Web master wings in no time. The included CD-ROM contains several server programs, HTML authoring applications, graphics tools, CGIs, and server plug-ins.

Review

From Reviews of the first edition of WebMaster Macintosh
"If you want to set up your own Web site but have no desire to be a "Unix weenie," WebMaster Macintosh is the book for you. With a sense of humor lacking in nearly all other Internet books, LeVitus and Evans guide you through the process of setting up a Macintosh server and getting it connected to the Internet. . . . What's really nice about this book is that it gives tips about how to structure a site so that it doesn't become unmanageable. . . .I highly recommend this book to beginning Web masters."
--THE NET

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Product Details

• Paperback: 525 pages
• Publisher: Academic Press; 2nd edition (February 10, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0124456022
• ISBN-13: 978-0124456020
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.5 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,499,941 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Edward C. Baig is the Personal Technology columnist for USA TODAY and the author of Macs For Dummies, 10th Edition. Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus pens the popular Dr. Mac column for the Houston Chronicle and is the author of Mac OS X® Snow Leopard For Dummies.