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Title: Webmaster in a Nutshell, Third Edition by Stephen Spainhour, Robert Eckstein ISBN: 0-596-00357-9 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.31 (36 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Up-to-date, all encompassing; not for ASPers or *designers*!
Comment: After a nice short overview, the text dives straight into a full HTML 4 tag list, with info on browser-specific elements. Frames, tables, forms and colours are also described in a more tutorial style.
CSS and XML are introduced with similar tutorial style with references following on CSS 1 and XSL (dec 98), and the same procedure follows for Javascript 1.2 (good), CGI with Perl (ok), PHP (see below) and HTTP (a bit incomplete, but headers listed). There is then information on Apache configuration and optimisation.
I'm not sure about the PHP chapter as I ignored it; they seem to have favoured a full PHP reference but only convered using CGI with Perl - I guess this is as they have other Perl books.
I would recommend this book to webmasters, after considering the following - this book is not about _design_, as it does not cover any style or graphics issues. There is also nothing covering ASP (see _ASP In A Nutshell_) or webservers other than apache.
Rating: 4
Summary: Almost the only book on my desk
Comment: Get your Web development library together, and then get this book! This book is not going to teach you all the bits and pieces, but this is exactly what the cover says "A Desktop Quick Reference", and a good one at that. It saves you having to haul a bunch of books around.
The sections on HTML 4, CSS, and JavaScript are fantastic, and I would recommend the book on these alone. The HTTP section is useful for the list of header fields with pretty good descriptions for a quick reference. There is also a group of sections on Server Configuration which are handy when browsing Apache configurations.
The PHP and CGI/Perl sections are not as useful and this is why I drop a star. The "reference" part of the PHP section is simply a list of function one-liners. I tend not to use the CGI/Perl sections at all. I'm not a Perl developer, and I find I need a more comprehensive guide to help me out.
In summary, this book is most useful if you know what you are doing, but just can't remember the detail!
Rating: 5
Summary: This is a MUST HAVE for any software developer
Comment: Anybody taking courses in web master subjects knows that various bits of coding rules get thrown at you ... all at once. What this book does it great. Webmaster in a Nutshell makes sense of many different languages without going overboard. Other text go into detail in just one software language. But you may not get the "heart" of it. This book does just that. Quick and right to the point. From here, you will have a better time understanding other books that specialize in an entire subject. pvr-consulting.
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Title: Web Design in a Nutshell by Jennifer Niederst ISBN: 0596001967 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, Fifth Edition by Chuck Musciano, Bill Kennedy ISBN: 059600382X Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide by Eric Meyer ISBN: 1565926226 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan ISBN: 0596000480 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference (2nd Edition) by Danny Goodman ISBN: 0596003161 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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