If you want to learn HTML, and if you remember concepts most easily if you practice the techniques rather than read about them, HTML 3.2 for the Internet and Intranets is for you.
One of the Ziff-Davis Press Quick Start series, this guide features step-by-step instructions interspersed with clear, crisp graphics. The disk that accompanies the book contains exercises that will reinforce your learning.
If you know rudimentary HTML, you can skip the first section of the manual. This part focuses on the very basics, such as defining HTML, explaining how to view source code, and teaching the whats and whys of basic HTML tags. After that introduction, the authors guide you through the different stages of creating a complete Web page. You'll learn how to add links, graphics, and sounds; to create tables, forms, and frames, and interactive documents; and how to add links to Internet services such as FTP and Chat.
Appendix B contains HTML and Web references, so don't skip over it. Once you master the steps detailed in this guide, you'll want to pursue more complex tasks. After all, the world (at least as it is mirrored in Silicon Valley) can always use another webmaster.
Attention, current and would-be college students, school counselors, and I-want-my-kid-to-succeed parents! Have we got a deal for you! The College Connections Web Directory 1997 lets you go to the head of the class when it comes to college information.
Jackson has designed not just a directory, but a guide that helps you dig up college-related information on the Web. Are you putting too much effort into just getting an application? Hunting through stacks of books and telephone directories at the library, trying to find college's address, finally writing that college, and then waiting, and waiting, and waiting...? And once the application arrives, how much time and effort do you spend carefully filling out all those applications in your best approximation of perfect handwriting, hunting through more books to find info about financial administration, and trying frustratingly to get through to a person so you can get even more information...?
This book solves all those problems. After helping to set you up on the Internet and giving you an understanding of the terms you'll need, Jackson teaches you how to search for the college of your choice. There are sites designed to help you plan and prepare for college, sites that feature financial aid information, and even meta-lists of university and college home pages. Whether you want to learn about a college in Wisconsin or Wales, Rhode Island or Russia, you'll want to check out the complete online directories of colleges and universities in the US and abroad.
Once you've found the right college, Jackson offers a helpful nudge in the right direction. A section devoted to using the Internet in college tells you how you can use search tools for research, and also tells you about some research and writing resources. If you're thinking about graduate school, check out his suggestions on preparing for that step. He includes info on entrance exams and the specifics of graduate degrees in various areas.
Although you'll learn JavaScript more quickly if you already know HTML and are familiar with programming concepts, the authors have designed JavaScript Primer Plus so that those two issues are not a prerequisite for understanding.
After introducing you to the concepts behind JavaScript, the authors provide information on HTML before plunging into the details of JavaScript programming. The book includes numerous examples, and each chapter ends with a summary, a list of questions, and several exercises that force you (if you use the book as the authors intended) to try out what you've learned. The CD-ROM that accompanies the book includes the JavaScript Primer Plus Object Reference, Alibaba and Microsoft Internet Information Server Web servers, Sun's Java Developer's Kit, and all of the code examples given in the book. The appendices give a complete list of all the JavaScript commands and keywords, a list of Web sites that utilize JavaScript, and a spreadsheet example.
If you're looking for something about the Internet but can't find it in the Internet 1997 Unleashed, maybe it doesn't exist.
This enormous volume (1269 pages) is kind of an "Everything You Wanted to Know About the Internet - and Probably Much More." You can read the technical stuff about the technology involved in the Internet, get all the basics (ranging from plugging in to using e-mail, newsgroups, browsers, and more), and become immersed in the World Wide Web. The book plays neutral, telling you how to use both Microsoft Internet Explorer andn Netscape Navigator.
You'll even learn how to create Web pages with HTML, set up and administer a Web server or Intranet, and the importance of security. The authors also point you to ways in which the Internet can work for you, whether you're a teacher, a student, a politician, or a business professional. And they also describe the latest technology and speculate about the direction in which the Net is headed. The CD-ROM is packed with Internet clients, networking utilities, development tools, and electronic books.