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By Doug Addison
First Edition
February 2006
Pages: 280
Series: Cookbooks
ISBN 10: 0-596-10109-0 |
ISBN 13: 9780596101091
(Average of 1 Customer Reviews)
This handy guide provides a wide range of solutions to real-life problems that come up regularly when creating and growing a website. With recipes that teach both routine and advanced setup tasks, the book includes clear and professional instruction on a host of topics. Learn page design, visitor tracking, site promotion, and much more.
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The total number of web pages today has been estimated at over 3 billion, spanning millions of individual websites. Not surprisingly, there is tremendous pressure on web developers and designers to remain current with the latest technologies.
The Web Site Cookbook from O'Reilly covers all the essential skills that you need to create engaging, visitor-friendly websites. It helps you with the practical issues surrounding their inception, design, and maintenance. With recipes that teach both routine and advanced setup tasks, the book includes clear and professional instruction on a host of topics, including:
- registering domains
- ensuring that hostnames work
- managing the directory
- maintaining and troubleshooting a website
- site promotion
- visitor tracking
- implementing e-commerce systems
- linking with sales sites
This handy guide also tackles the various elements of page design. It explains how to control a reader's eye flow, how to choose a template system, how to set up a color scheme, and more.
Typical of O'Reilly's "Cookbook" series, the Web Site Cookbook is written in a straightforward format, featuring recipes that contain problem statements and solutions. A detailed explanation then follows each recipe to show you how and why the solution works. This question-solution-discussion format is a proven teaching method, as any fan of the "Cookbook" series can attest to.
Regardless of your strong suit or your role in the creation and life of a website, you can benefit from the teachings found in the Web Site Cookbook. It's a must-have tool for advancing your skills and making better sites.
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Book details
First Edition: February 2006
Series:
Cookbooks
ISBN: 0-596-10109-0
Pages: 280
Average Customer Reviews: (Based on 1 Reviews)
Featured customer reviews
Highly Recommended, April 21 2006
Excellent for beginners, but I would have liked to have gotten more detail. Perhaps that is the trade-off for so broad a subject.
This book has answers to alot of questions that beginners(like me) might have. For instance, when I was shopping around for a hosting service for a personal website, features that were common to most hosting plans were cron (a scheduling utility) and ssi (server side includes). What are they? Why would they list them as a plus for hosting? Why would I care if they featured these or not? Well the Web Site Cookbook not only tells you what they are, but also gives you examples as to when, how, and why you might use them.
Each topic (recipe) is broken down into 4 sections:
1. Problem: A one or two sentence description of what you need or want to do.
2. Solution: A step by step solution.
3. Discussion: A discussion of the applied solution.
4. See Also: Additional information from other "recipes" in the book and/or outside resources.
There are also sections on planning your site, organizing directories, creating color schemes, as well as tips on making URL's easy to find and remember. (just to name a few). This book will get you well on your way to putting together a well designed web site. Highly recommended.
Media reviews
"...a superb primer and a must-have reference for anyone having anything to do with building, launching or maintaining a web site. Doug Addison's wisdom is dead-on with practical, real-world experience, particularly in the early chapters. For the early chapters alone, I recommend this book to web site owners, so they have a better understanding and appreciation of the skilled and detailed work their designers, developers and webmasters do for them. With clear, concise writing, Doug wastes no space or words, and his Web Site Cookbook is an essential reference tool. Readers will undoubtedly find dozens of tips and tricks they can put to use immediately, just as I did."
-- Mike Swope, MacCompanion
"Doug Addison has brought together a large number of useful techniques. His organization of these techniques is logical. His explanations and examples are clear and easy to put into practice. This book will be valuable for someone who has some experience with the hands-on control of one web site. For those who manage more than one site this will be a valuable addition to their existing library."
-- Robert Boardman, Kickstart News
"Doug never strays from the original intent of the book: building Web sites that people will visit, bookmark, and revisit. As I read the many recipes included in the book (there are 89 of them), I wanted to try all of them as soon as I could. I like techniques that are simple, easy to implement, and beneficial. Doug has got it down to a science...Check out Doug's cookbook. While it may not get him his own show on the Food Network, it will help you prepare a full course Web site guaranteed to please any appetite."
-- Lee Underwood, WebReference
"...a very interesting mix of a lot of things that have, unfortunately, become regarded as separate things--website marketing, website development, amongst other things. The books should be valuable to people who understand the technical basics of HTML or someone who wants a better idea of what their website can do, could do and perhaps even should do."
-- Taran Rampersad, KnowProSE.com
"If you want to build a site, this will show you all the steps which lie ahead in order to develop something that will be taken seriously. And if you already have a site, it offers suggestions for improvement which will keep you busy for months to come."
-- Roy Johnson, MANTEX Information Design
"When you run a web site, there's always "one more thing" you have to take care of. Web Site Cookbook by Doug Addison can help you figure out what some of those things are, as well as how to fix them."
--Thomas "Duffbert" Duff, Duffbert's Random Musings, March 2006
