Building Professional Web Sites with the Right Tools (Hewlett-Packard Professional Books) (Paperback)

There's a world of great Web technology out there, but how can you make it all work together to build a Web site that achieves your goals, and works great, too? This book shows you, from planning through development, testing, deployment, and beyond. Along the way, you'll discover how to get fast results with FrontPage, Visual Studio 6, and many other great Microsoft tools and techniques. Start by identifying your site's goals and making the business case for building it. Create a high-level design; make key up-front technology decisions; and plan for feedback and advertising. Establish site-wide standards that will make your life much easier as your site grows; create a database and integrate it with your site; design graphics and navigation; and much more. Build feedback pages; track broken links; provide site help; plan and execute site tests -- and go live. This hands-on book covers the nitty-gritty tasks other Web books miss, so you can build your site faster and more effectively than ever before.

CONTENTS

1. Defining the Need.

The Business Case. The Software Development Cycle. Requirements - What They Want It To Do. Requirements. High-Level Design - What It Will Do. The Home Page. The Feedback Page. The Awards Page. The About Page. The Ads Page. The Rings Page. The Copyright Page. Summary.

2. Untangling the Technology.

HTML. Common Gateway Interface (CGI). ASP. Java. Java Applets. JavaScript and VBScript. CSS. DHTML. ADO.

3. The Solution.

Development Platform Architecture. Windows. TCP/IP. Active Server Pages. FrontPage. Visual Interdev. Access. Netscape Communicator / Internet Explorer. Application Architecture. HTML. ASP. VBScript. JavaScript. ADO. DHTML. COM. CSS. Java Applets. Production Platform Architecture. Application Map. Feedback Pages. The Feedback Frames. Feedback Pre-Processor. New Category Request. Category Comments. New Link Page. General Comments Page. Award Nomination Page. Feedback Post-Processor. Awards Page. About Page. Advertising Page. Copyright Page. Rings Page. Home (Main) Page. Cascading Style Sheets.

4. The DIY Store.

Paint Shop Pro. FrontPage '. Image Composer. Visual InterDev 6.0 & Servers. Enabling ASP.

5. Standards.

Naming Standards. Coding Standards. HTML Coding Standards. Comments. Error Handling.

6. The Database.

Why A Database? Creating the Database. The Elements. Categories. Links. Ads. Normalizing. Creating the Database Tables. Categories. Links. LinkCat. Ads. AdCat. Summary. Creating the Data Source Name.

7. The Graphics.

Button It Up. Show Me the Way. Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity Jig. A Matter of Direction. A Name To Remember. And Now a Word From Our Sponsors.

8. The Environment.

The Blowhole Web. The Visual Interdev Solution. Connecting a DSN.

9. Home. 10. The Utility Pages.

Navigation Banner. The Ad Page. The Copyright Page. The Awards Page. Rings Page.

11. Home Again.

Cascading Style Sheet. The Title Bar. The Navigation Banner. ASP Files. The Categories Frame. The For-Profit Rotating Ad. For-Profit Static Ad. The Non-Profit Rotating Ad. The Links Frame. The Greeting. The Redirect Page. Creating an SQL Query. What's it All About?

12. Feedback.

The Feedback Page. Subroutine Library. Feedback Preprocessor. Postprocessor. Broken Links. Award Nomination.

13. Help! 14. This is Only a Test!

Test Plan. Executing the Plan.

15. Going Live!

Selecting an ISP. Selecting a Web Hoster. Obtaining a Domain. Publishing your site. Marketing the site.

16. Epilogue. Appendix A: The Web Site. Appendix B: Dynamic Billboard. Index. About the Authors

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