Webmastering for Dummies (Paperback)

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Webmastering, though it's fast retreating from the bleeding edge it once occupied, is one of the last jack-of-all-trades job descriptions. A good Webmaster has to know something (quite a bit, actually) about computer networking, telephone services, software, database design and administration, user administration, electronic money transactions, and tons more. The job is not just about knowing HTML and being familiar with some graphics software. In essence, that's the point that Webmastering for Dummies drives home to its readers. This book doesn't go into much detail on any aspect of the job of the Webmaster--particularly the more-or-less autonomous kind that doesn't function as part of a larger corporate information-technology group--but it provides a good overview of the job, and a moderate amount of valuable information.

You'll probably want to read this book, or at least its individual chapters, straight through in the way you would read a novel. The plot here isn't much, but the authors like to describe their subjects in English, rather than with code examples or protocols you can follow on a keyboard. It's good reading, though it's sometimes muddled by digressions into Web sites with design budgets in excess of $500,000. People with budgets like that aren't going to be reading Dummies books to figure out how to set up their sites. You won't be disappointed if you're starting from zero, but expect to do further research. --David Wall

Topics covered: The varied skills that are part of the Webmaster's trade, including goals assessment, content accumulation, e-commerce engineering, service-provider interaction, and coding with HTML.

Product Description

Internet professionals pushing their businesses to the Web and dot.com entrepreneurs alike are grabbing this book to take advantage of the author's easy-to-understand tips and strategies for producing and maintaining a winning professional Web site. Webmastering For Dummies, 2nd Edition updates the content from the first edition to track changes in the technology over the past three years, and to give you insight into how best to use new developments on the Web -- like new scripting languages, new design tools, and Web Branding on online communities. This edition also features expanded coverage on tapping the potential of graphics on your Web site, and the best way to use those graphics to your advantage.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies; 2 edition (November 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 076450777X
• ISBN-13: 978-0764507779
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #307,078 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book For Those Planning to Be An Expert, March 27, 2002

By	IJAZ A QURESHI (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Webmastering for Dummies (Paperback)

I am an MBA Graduate and always felt that I have very little knowledge of Web Site Planning & Development. After reading this book I found, it is so easy to be a successful Web Planning AND Development Expert. This book starts from very basics and moves up to very high professional level.
I would recommend this book (Webmastering For Dummies 2nd Edition, by Brenda Kienan)to all those who have interest in Web Planning and Development but couldn't do it because they thought it is impossible to do!
I enjoyed reading this book and feel this book has opened many new avenues in my professional life, I hope it will do the same for you too.

17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Ok for beginners, March 30, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Webmastering for Dummies (Paperback)

This book is exactly for what its title suggests, "Dummies", really no depth at all, but if you are a beginner that really has no idea what is going on in all aspects of web design or webmastering, then I suggest you get it to get an idea of what is going on. Even after that however you will probably still need another beginner level book to help get you up to speed on some other more in depth issues that webmasters face.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Real, practical advice, April 23, 2001

By A Customer

A co-worker recommended this book to me as a truly expert overview of managing a website. She couldn't have been more correct--I've been producing big-budget, high-volume websites for a couple of years, but this book gave me new insight into how other aspects of the website business work. Whether you're new at the job or you've been at it a while, and whether your job is as an all-around webmaster or as a specialist, I think you'll find this book interesting and useful.