Website Automation Toolkit [Paperback]

Paul Helinski (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471197858 | ISBN-13: 978-0471197850 | Publication Date: January 1998

This book, designed for Webmasters on a budget, provides the best freeware and commercial tools for Web site management on both NT and UNIX systems, and explains how to use these tools. CD-ROM provides complete working code for all non-commercial tools written by the author and other Webmasters as well as example code from commercial Web sites, as well as demo and/or lite versions of commercial products.

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This book, designed for Webmasters on a budget, provides the best freeware and commercial tools for Web site management on both NT and UNIX systems, and explains how to use these tools. CD-ROM provides complete working code for all non-commercial tools written by the author and other Webmasters as well as example code from commercial Web sites, as well as demo and/or lite versions of commercial products.

From the Back Cover

Website Automation Toolkit
* Tools especially designed for webmasters on a budget
* Includes Unix and NT versions of never-before-seen tools
* Interact with website visitors like high-budget websites do
* CD-ROM includes free software plus fully functioning shareware utilities.

Paul Helinski

Wouldn't it be great if your website could collect e-mail addresses and automatically send a message to your interested guests every time your site changes? What about shopping? Would you like to take orders on your site and have them automatically totaled and e-mailed to you? That stuff's only for the high-budget sites, right? Wrong. With the Website Automation Toolkit you'll get that and more. Add discussion boards to your site, chat rooms, collect hit statistics, optimize your site for the search engines, and a whole bunch more. Stop coding static HTML pages that can't do anything but look pretty. The easy-to-install utilities here will allow you to interact with your visitors while saving hundreds of hours of site maintenance.

Web technology innovator and entrepreneur Paul Helinski brings together the "best-of-class" tools--some of which his company developed and are available nowhere else--and shows you how to customize them for your needs. Writing for both novice and experienced webmasters on a budget, he supplies step-by-step guidance, including a special Quick Start feature that will have you rolling in no time. You'll learn how to:
* Automate the most troublesome web management tasks
* Customize pages for individual visitors
* Execute major design changes without editing every page and without style sheets
* Allow outside contributors to add pages without a security risk
* Maximize the groupware and community potential of your intranet, extranet, and public web
* Create product databases without licensing expensive servers.

PAUL HELINSKI is one of the foremost innovators of server-based web technology. A proven Internet entrepreneur, his various projects have been featured in magazines such as Web Techniques and at conferences sponsored by Mecklermedia and Miller-Freeman.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (January 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471197858
• ISBN-13: 978-0471197850
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,773,501 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic for people with little time., May 14, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Website Automation Toolkit (Paperback)

I've been bashing my head against a wall with learning Perl, and this book is the first that I've had any luck getting anything to work.

Paul's a great author and walks you through the steps fairly well.

The cool thing is, is that all the programs he offers in the book work together and will make you a pretty comprehensive site for a lot less headache than static pages and search and replace!

1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best out there! No better on this subject!, February 7, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Website Automation Toolkit (Paperback)

As intermediate-level user, I found this book to be the bridge which could carry me to expert. This easy to read "toolbox" is a great investment in any web-designers future.

0 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars it is the first book talking about Content Management., August 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Website Automation Toolkit (Paperback)

It is more for Unix/Perl systems, but the ideas behind are great..