Spinning The Web: A Guide To Serving Information On The World Wide Web

The Internet has exploded in popularity, mainly due to the World Wide Web. Spinning the Web brings together WWW reference material and examples of WWW usage to help you get the most from this powerful new medium. It contains a detailed explanation of how the WWW works and shows you how to use the WWW effectively. Aimed at the intelligent reader who is comfortable with computers, the book discusses how to set up WWW sites, how to ensure site security, how to present information effectively, how to create multimedia documents, how to process forms and other user data, and how to use the latest WWW technology.

While most books on the Web describe its usage from the user's end, this book is unique in its focus on serving information on the Web and is invaluable to Web administrators and developers. Some of the topics covered include servers, clients, HTML 3.0, serving documents, interfaces, WWW utilities, and viewer programs such as Netscape 2. The book also includes an introduction to programming with Java and Java script, as well as the complete VRML 1.0 (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) specification.