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The Complete Website Upgrade and Maintenance Guide

Name: The Complete Website Upgrade and Maintenance Guide
Author: Lisa Schmeiser
ISBN: 9780782123159

by Lisa Schmeiser

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Overview

The Most Comprehensive Book About Enhancing and Maintaining Your Existing Website
The Complete Website Upgrade and Maintenance Guide is destined to be the industryÆs ultimate website reference, and is a must-have for everyone involved with the development of websites. This book is the most complete and authoritative resource available, ready to help you turn an existing site into a long-lasting, sophisticated, dynamic, and effective tool. ItÆs the single resource where Webmasters, project managers, and producers can learn about topics ranging from planning a dynamic foundation and building a powerful backend, to choosing the right technologies and adding leading-edge capabilities. Four website case studies complete with code, scripts, and server analyses, are presented to give you the real-world insight you need to make your most pressing design, server, and programming decisions. You will also find several useful references such as an HTML tags appendix, a JavaScript glossary, a Unix cheatsheet, a style sheet attribute list, a browser comparison checklist, and a UI checklist. Hot Tips and Insider Advice from a Leading Website Authority HereÆs just a sample of the topics covered:

Employing intelligent design
Maximizing HTML and DHTML
Ensuring usability, accessibility, and quality
Moving from static to dynamic website production
Exploring XML
Applying a DOM to your site
Choosing the right multimedia technologies
Accomodating advertising
Building and fine tuning a powerful backend
Exploring intranet and extranet development
And much more!

Featured on the CD The companion, cross-platform CD is loaded with demos of popular tools such as Adobe After Effects, Allaire HomeSite, and the Apache server, sample code for Web servers, HTML editing, and graphics, code for the four case studies, and much more.

Synopsis

Following the same approach as Sybex's best-selling reference classic, The Complete PC Upgrade & Maintenance Guide, this book is destined to be the industry's ultimate Website reference. There's no question that this is the most comprehensive and broad-reaching tome, created to help you build a solid and long-lasting site from the ground up or turn an existing site into a sophisticated, dynamic, effective tool. It's the only single resource in which Webmasters, project managers and producers can learn about topics ranging from planning a dynamic foundation and building a powerful backend, to choosing the right technologies and adding leading edge capabilities. The case studies throughout provide you with the real-world applications you need to make your most pressing design, server, and programming decisions. And you benefit from the real-world experiences of one of the most knowledgeable Web insiders.The companion CD is loaded with tools, demos, sample code, and much more.