HTML for the Business Developer: with JavaServer Pages, PHP, ASP.NET, CGI, and JavaScript

Written by business developers for business developers, this book focuses on HTML for business applications. Using this guide, professional business programmers like you—even those with little or no HTML experience—will quickly acquire the knowledge and skills needed to develop and deploy robust, data-driven, Web-based interfaces for their business applications.

HTML for the Business Developer isn’t just another "HTML 101" book for the masses. It zeros in on those aspects of HTML that pertain specifically to the business environment and covers a wide range of technologies beyond simple HTML to show complete deployment of business applications using an HTML interface. It also explores the most common tools any business programmer needs to develop browser-based applications with enterprise data, such as JavaServer Pages, PHP, ASP.NET, CGI, and JavaScript.

Business developers shouldn’t have to sift through every last detail of HTML minutiae. Nor must they become an expert in every Web language "out there." HTML for the Business Developer is the business developer’s guide to the essence of these technologies. Led by these two knowledgable and experienced authors, you will be able to develop and implement a complete browser-based business application in no time at all.

With HTML for the Business Developer, you will:

* Learn the HTML necessary to deploy robust, data-driven, Web-based business applications

* Discover how other technologies interact with HTML to present enterprise data

* Enlarge your skill set with not only HTML, but also JavaServer Pages, PHP, ASP.NET, CGI, and JavaScript

* Understand all of the components required to develop and deploy business Web applications

Providing essential skills that pertain specifically to business programmers, this concise manual focuses on the fundamental aspects of HTML without tedious, superfluous complexities. Intended for experienced application business developers with little to no HTML experience, step-by-step instructions are detailed for transferring data from a corporate database to a user display. Including chapters on JavaScript, CGI, PHP, ASP.Net, and JavaServer Pages, this compact guidebook shows how other technologies interact with HTML to present business data and offers tools and skills to develop robust, data driven, web-based interfaces for business applications.

Kevin Forsythe is the lead instructor for DMC Consulting where he is responsible for the development and delivery of technical training on a wide range of topics. He is the coauthor of IBM i5/iSeries Primer and the author of SQL for eServer i5 and iSeries. He lives in Toledo, Ohio. Laura Ubelhor owns and operates Consultech Services, an organization specializing in providing consulting services including project management, design, development, implementation, and support of business applications. She lives in Rochester, Michigan.