WebMaster in a Nutshell - Stephen Spainbour / Valerie Quercia - First Edition - 1996 - Paperback - OReilly

WebMaster in a Nutshell: In a Nutshell A Desktop Quick Reference (O'Reilly)
by Valerie Quercia and Stephen Spainhour

Do you have too many books about the Web and not enough space on your bookshelf? WebMaster in a Nutshell takes all the essential reference information for the Web and pulls it together into one slim volume. This book is a quick reference for anyone who does work on the Web - content providers, programmers, and administrators alike. WebMaster in a Nutshell covers:

-HTML 3.2, the markup language for Web documents

-CGI, for creating interactive content on the Web

-JavaScript, a scripting language that can be embedded directly into HTML

-HTML extensions by Netscape Navigator 3.0 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0

-Examples and descriptions of the HTML tags for creating frames, tables, and fill-in forms

-HTTP 1.1, the underlying protocol that drives the Web

-Configuration for the Apache, NCSA, CERN, Netscape, and WebSite servers

-Perl 5, the programming language used most often for CGI

-WinCGI, the CGI interface for Windows-based programming languages

-Cookies, for maintaining state between multiple instances of CGI, Java, and JavaScript programs

WebMaster in a Nutshell breaks up these topics into concise, distinct chapters, designed to make it easy to find the information you want at a moment's notice. This is a book that anyone working seriously on the Web will find indispensable.