This book is for everyone who works on the content end of the World Wide Web. Do you author or maintain web documents? Do you write CGI scripts? Are you a programmer developing web-based client or server applications? Are you the administrator of a web site, responsible for maintaining and updating the server software?
There are innumerable books and online resources for learning web-related skills. What this book does is pare them down to a single desktop-sized volume for easy reference. You may be a whiz at CGI programming but forget the syntax for sending cookies. You may know HTML fairly well but can never remember the correct syntax for creating tables. You might forget the directive for creating directory aliases on your server or how to enforce password protection on documents.
By no means is this book a replacement for more detailed books on the Web. But when those books have been digested and placed on your bookshelves with pride, this one will remain on your desktop.
This book is separated into eight distinct subject areas.
- Chapter 1
Introduces the book and the Web in general.
- Chapter 2
Gives a brief background to HTML syntax and introduces the features of the latest specification, HTML 4.0.
- Chapter 3
Lists the current set of HTML tags and their attributes.
- Chapter 4
Shows how to use HTML frames.
- Chapter 5
Shows how to use HTML tables.
- Chapter 6
Shows how to create HTML forms.
- Chapter 7
Lists the special characters recognized by HTML.
- Chapter 8
Lists the names accepted by HTML and CSS attributes for color values.
- Chapter 9
Provides an overview and reference to the Cascading Style Sheets specification for HTML documents.
- Chapter 10
Provides an introduction and reference to XML.
- Chapter 11
Provides a reference for the JavaScript language.
- Chapter 12
Gives a general overview to the Common Gateway Interface, or CGI.
- Chapter 13
Describes SSI, listing directives and environment variables and demonstrating their use.
- Chapter 14
Provides a reference to the Perl module CGI.pm, which simplifies CGI programming.
- Chapter 15
Provides a reference to mod_perl, an Apache module that can significantly enhance CGI performance.
- Chapter 16
Lists the syntax and functions of PHP, a server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language.
- Chapter 17
Provides an overview and reference to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol.
- Chapter 18
Lists the configuration directives used by the Apache server.
- Chapter 19
Lists the modules that you can use with Apache.
- Chapter 20
Describes 10 areas where you can improve the performance of your server.
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