| Web Publishing Unleashed |
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| by William Stanek |
| Table of Contents |
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| Part I Getting Started and Planning |
| 1 Before You Start: Issues to Consider |
| 2 Why Publish on the Web? |
| 3 Publishers' Tour of the Web |
| 4 Plotting Your Course |
| Part II Web Publishing with HTML |
| 5 Creating Web Documents with HTML |
| 6 Designing with HTML 3.0 |
| 7 Adding Multimedia Features with HTML |
| 8 Netscape and Internet Explorer Extensions |
| 9 Designing Tables and Frames |
| Part III Interactive Web Publishing |
| 10 HTML Toolkit: Browsers, Editors, and Converters |
| 11 Writing CGI Scripts |
| 12 Form and Image Map Creation and Design |
| 13 Search Engines and Indexed Databases |
| 14 Dynamic Documents with Client Pull/Server Push |
| Part IV Web Publishing Production Systems |
| 15 Building and Managing a Web-Based Information System |
| 16 Designing Web Documents Using Your Favorite Word Processor |
| 17 Other Document Systems |
| 18 Desktop Publishing |
| 19 Should You Upgrade to SGML? |
| Part V Multimedia and Beyond |
| 20 Image, Sound, and Video Formats |
| 21 Multimedia Presentation Tools |
| 22 Creating VRML Worlds |
| 23 3-D Modeling Tools |
| 24 Writing Java Applets |
| Part VI Putting It All Together |
| 25 Designing and Publishing a Web Document |
| 26 Designing and Publishing a Web Site |
| 27 Designing and Publishing a Multimedia Presentation |
| Part VII Looking Ahead |
| 28 The Future of Web Publishing |
| Appendix A An HTML Reference |
| Appendix B Netscape and Internet Explorer Extensions |
| Appendix C SGML |
| Appendix D Sources for Additional Information |
| Appendix E VRML Resource Directory |
Web Publishing Unleashed is probably the only Web publishing book you will ever need. This book covers every major Web publishing issue. It is designed to unleash the topic of Web publishing and help you become one of the thousands of successful Web publishers providing ideas, services, and products to millions of Web users. Not only can you reach these millions of consumers on the Web, you can do so in mind-blowing proportions and in ways that are limited only by your imagination.
Whether your Web publishing plans are large or small, you don't want to wait any longer to get into the action. By the end of 1998, more than 100 million people will have access to the global Internet and to the World Wide Web. What this means is that for a few dollars a month, you can reach a potential audience of millions. If you think this is hype, think again. The World Wide Web has caught the eye of the media, businesses, entrepreneurs, and governments. Media coverage of the Internet and related issues grows every day. Thousands of articles related to the Internet are published every month in books, magazines, newspapers, and newsletters. You will find discussions about the Internet and the Web on TV shows, radio, and the news. You will also find addresses to Web pages in all forms of advertising from magazine ads to television commercials.
As you read this book, you will learn about the things the Web has to offer. I have taken great care to provide invaluable tips and pour my expertise into every page of Web Publishing Unleashed. Today's Web publishers have powerful resources at their fingertips and this book will show you how to use every one of them. Here are the major topics covered in this book:
Web Publishing Unleashed is for anyone who wants to publish on the Web or has considered publishing on the Web. While this book is intended for those with a casual to accomplished knowledge of the Internet or the World Wide Web, the plain English approach makes this book perfect for just about anyone.
Copyright 1996, 1997 William R. Stanek, Sams Publishing, Sams.net Publishing