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Was hoping someone could please recommend a good, hands-on comprehensive how-to / best practices book for webmasters? (About 6 months ago, I inherited webmaster duties from the previous web admin.) I'm also looking for a book that approaches things specifically from the webmaster/web admin perspective, rather than from that of a generic programmer or developer point of view. Thanks!
Also, the development platforms I use and working on would be ASP.NET, VB.NET, JavaScript, VBScript, XML, ColdFusion, XSLT, etc., if this is also important.
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Try Real Web Project Management: Case Studies and Best Practices from the Trenches. You'll see yourself in the examples it provides and avoid the "trial by fire" pitfalls of most of the admin part of webmastering. Amazon link below.
Try Real Web Project Management: Case Studies and Best Practices from the Trenches. You'll see yourself in the examples it provides and avoid the "trial by fire" pitfalls of most of the admin part of webmastering. Amazon link below.
initials and expressions related to web page design (programming) are not familiar for me :(?
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Do you know any good book related to internet structure, networks and web expressions to explain everything from scrach?
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There are thousands of good books on these subjects.
For learning about the web and internet, a really excellent book is "How the Internet Works" Preston Gralla (and beautifully illustrated by Michael Troller).
As for learning the specific computer languages of the world wide web (below) I suggest you visit the Firefox developer website, and if you need more information, then the W3 website ( www.w3.org ).
* XHTML - current general-purpose language of web documents
* HTML - archaeic original form of web documents, whose replacement by XHTML is well under way
* CSS - a way of "styling" documents and customizing their layouts/behavior with externally applied stylesheets (you can also embed CSS rules within the STYLE element of the HEAD element of the HTML element of an HTML/XHTML document, if you wish)
* XSLT - a more powerful way of styling the content of a web page - or external XML data document
* SVG - fancy graphics language
* MathML - for writing mathematical expressions/equations
* Javascript - scripting language built into every major web browser
* Java - full-blown computer language available for every major web browser (applets run in browser, webapps run on server)
* XForms - an approved standard that improves the form authoring/processing/presentation capabilities of XHTML (available for Firefox 1.5 as a beta extension)
I would start with reading the Mozilla page; it's a nice, handy starting piont. I think you can find everything you need to there. If not, try the W3 page.
Grab yourself a CSS cheatsheet online, bookmark the CSS 2.1 spec at w3.org, or buy yourself a copy of the CSS pocket reference from O'Reilly. If you buy any books on CSS, make sure they cover the CSS 2.1 standard, not 1.0 or 2.0.
By the way, a prerequisite for reading the XHTML spec is to read the XML spec, or at least keep it handy so you can refer to it. XHTML is written in XML.
As for programming web pages on the server side of things, which is kind of unavoidable for non-toy sites that someone is supposed to do anything more than read documents - you need to learn another programming language besides Javascript.
The one I a just learned is called Ruby, and the web application framework I am learning right now that is written in it is called Ruby On Rails. When you have learned the other stuff, if you want to be able to program the server, check it out. It seems like a good language for beginners and experts.
Oh, and the CSS Zen Garden website is a beautiful website that showcases the power - and aesthetic beauty - possible with well-designed, artistic use of CSS.
Make sure you grab a a free copy of the Mozilla web browser, before you start reading through all the documentation. It supports more W3 web standards than any other browser, and has lots of free sidebars and extensions to help budding web developers such as yourself.
You might want to grab the Google Notebook extension for Firefox too. It can be a really handy way to save some private notes about the different standards that are documented on the web.
Wikipedia is a fantastic reference for web standards and programming languages too. So do not hesitate to look things up in there.
There are thousands of good books on these subjects.
For learning about the web and internet, a really excellent book is "How the Internet Works" Preston Gralla (and beautifully illustrated by Michael Troller).
As for learning the specific computer languages of the world wide web (below) I suggest you visit the Firefox developer website, and if you need more information, then the W3 website ( www.w3.org ).
* XHTML - current general-purpose language of web documents
* HTML - archaeic original form of web documents, whose replacement by XHTML is well under way
* CSS - a way of "styling" documents and customizing their layouts/behavior with externally applied stylesheets (you can also embed CSS rules within the STYLE element of the HEAD element of the HTML element of an HTML/XHTML document, if you wish)
* XSLT - a more powerful way of styling the content of a web page - or external XML data document
* SVG - fancy graphics language
* MathML - for writing mathematical expressions/equations
* Javascript - scripting language built into every major web browser
* Java - full-blown computer language available for every major web browser (applets run in browser, webapps run on server)
* XForms - an approved standard that improves the form authoring/processing/presentation capabilities of XHTML (available for Firefox 1.5 as a beta extension)
I would start with reading the Mozilla page; it's a nice, handy starting piont. I think you can find everything you need to there. If not, try the W3 page.
Grab yourself a CSS cheatsheet online, bookmark the CSS 2.1 spec at w3.org, or buy yourself a copy of the CSS pocket reference from O'Reilly. If you buy any books on CSS, make sure they cover the CSS 2.1 standard, not 1.0 or 2.0.
By the way, a prerequisite for reading the XHTML spec is to read the XML spec, or at least keep it handy so you can refer to it. XHTML is written in XML.
As for programming web pages on the server side of things, which is kind of unavoidable for non-toy sites that someone is supposed to do anything more than read documents - you need to learn another programming language besides Javascript.
The one I a just learned is called Ruby, and the web application framework I am learning right now that is written in it is called Ruby On Rails. When you have learned the other stuff, if you want to be able to program the server, check it out. It seems like a good language for beginners and experts.
Oh, and the CSS Zen Garden website is a beautiful website that showcases the power - and aesthetic beauty - possible with well-designed, artistic use of CSS.
Make sure you grab a a free copy of the Mozilla web browser, before you start reading through all the documentation. It supports more W3 web standards than any other browser, and has lots of free sidebars and extensions to help budding web developers such as yourself.
You might want to grab the Google Notebook extension for Firefox too. It can be a really handy way to save some private notes about the different standards that are documented on the web.
Wikipedia is a fantastic reference for web standards and programming languages too. So do not hesitate to look things up in there.
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