How to Set Up and Maintain a World Wide Web Site


Book Description

Creating a Web server site via the Internet can be a frustrating experience. This comprehensive guide covers all the essentials of designing, configuring, maintaining and expanding a Web site using the most popular software packages, CERN and NCSA. This World Wide Web guide will be an invaluable reference during all phases of a Web site's life span.




How to Set Up and Maintain a Web Site


Book Description

The companion CD-ROM is packed with hundreds of freeware and shareware took for setting up a web site. It is nicely organized by function and operating system. Includes software for UNIX, Macintosh, and Windows.




Designing, Building, and Maintaining Websites


Book Description

Most organizations, businesses, and schools, and even many individuals, have their own websites. Building a website draws on a number of different skills, and thus can be a valuable learning experience for students. This book introduces readers to the fundamentals of planning, designing, building, and launching their own websites. It simplifies complex concepts and encourages website creation and experimentation. It updates an earlier website-building edition with new guidance on cutting-edge technologies, including those for the mobile platforms that are more important than ever. Readers will also benefit from new content that acknowledges the importance and impact of social media.







Using the World Wide Web and Creating Home Pages


Book Description

Explains a variety of Web concepts in a practical manner, with an emphasis on the Web for libraries. Discusses the process of planning for and implementing a library/community, including an overview of the basics of the Web in simple, non-technical language; basic technical information needed to select and budget for an Internet connection that will support the Web; an explanation of how to train staff and patrons and encourage them to become Web-savvy; an outline of the planning process; how to design Web sites; and a primer of basic HTML text and graphic tags.




PHP and MySQL For Dummies


Book Description

Here's what Web designers need to know to create dynamic, database-driven Web sites To be on the cutting edge, Web sites need to serve up HTML, CSS, and products specific to the needs of different customers using different browsers. An effective e-commerce site gathers information about users and provides information they need to get the desired result. PHP scripting language with a MySQL back-end database offers an effective way to design sites that meet these requirements. This full updated 4th Edition of PHP & MySQL For Dummies gets you quickly up to speed, even if your experience is limited. Explains the easy way to install and set up PHP and MySQL using XAMPP, so it works the same on Linux, Mac, and Windows Shows you how to secure files on a Web host and how to write secure code Packed with useful and understandable code examples for Web site creators who are not professional programmers Fully updated to ensure your code will be compliant based on PHP 5.3 and MySQL 5.1.31 Provides clear, accurate code examples PHP & MySQL For Dummies, 4th Edition provides what you need to know to create sites that get results. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.




Serving the Web


Book Description

A book about the other side of the Web tells how to create and maintain your own Internet Web Server and set up a World Wide Web publishing operation, describing how the Web works and what software is available. Original. (All Users).




Web Standards


Book Description

Web Standards: Mastering HTML5, CSS3, and XML provides solutions to the most common web design problems, and gives you a deep understanding of web standards and how they can be implemented to improve your web sites. You will learn how to develop fully standards-compliant, mobile-friendly, and search engine-optimized web sites that are robust, fast, and easy to update while providing excellent user experience and interoperability. The book covers all major web standards for markup, style sheets, web typography, web syndication, semantic annotations, and accessibility. This edition has been fully updated with the latest in web standards, including the finalized HTML5 vocabulary and the full list of CSS3 properties. Web Standards: Mastering HTML5, CSS3, and XML is also a comprehensive guide to current and future standards for the World Wide Web, demonstrating the implementation of new technologies to address the constantly growing user expectations. Web Standards: Mastering HTML5, CSS3, and XML presents step-by-step guides based on solid design principles and best practices, and shows the most common web development tools and web design frameworks. You will master HTML5 and its XML serialization, XHTML5, the new structuring and multimedia elements, the most important HTML5 APIs, and understand the standardization process of HTML 5.1, HTML 5.2, and future HTML5 versions.




Maintaining Community in the Information Age


Book Description

By exploring the experiences of community activists and organizations working with information and communication technology (ICT) to build communities, this book offers a grounded and informed study of the role ICT plays in people's lives. The author emphasizes the importance of networks built around trust, shared spaces and local knowledge bases in the formation of significant relationships in contemporary Western societies and in doing so, questions many of the assumptions which inform the rhetorics of the information age.