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.
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Review
Webmaster: Macintosh is a fast and easy guide for turning your Macintosh into a World Wide Web site. With Webmaster: Macintosh (which includes a CD-ROM) anyone can create his or her own Web page in a matter of hours. Webmaster: Macintosh features a brief overview of the origin and rapid growth of the World Wide Web; the nuts and bolts details needed to connect to an internet service provider; everything needed to write great HTML codes for web page designs; all the setup and configuration information required for a web server (including security, clickable maps and buttons, client-sever architecture, gateway interfaces, and connecting to common database applications); interviews with WebMasters; a WebMaster Web site that will keep the reader up to date with all the latest tools, applications, and Web resources; a wealth of WebMaster information such as useful Internet mailing lists, newsgroups, key Web site locations, and pointers to every Internet resource a WebMaster would ever need; and all the tips needed to maximize a web site's performance -- including how to announce it to the world of the internet. The CD-Rom provides all the shareware needed to set up a web site including HTLM editors, graphics tools, scripting additions and more! --
Midwest Book Review
