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Practical Web Technologies
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Practical Web Technologies

by P. K. Yuen, V. Lau
September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
33h 46m
English
Pearson Business

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Practical Web Technologies

P.K. Yuen

V. Lau

SUBJECT COVERED > HTML > XHTML > CSS > JAVA > J2SDK > 2D SHAPES > BUSINESS GRAPHICS > MULTIMEDIA & MOVIES > WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER (WMP) > PLUGINS > JMF > BROADCASTING LIVE VIDEO > XML > XSL > XSLT > XML PARSER > ECMAScript (JAVASCRIPT) > DHTML > MOVING OBJECTS > DOM > EMAILS & ATTACHMENTS > CGI > APACHE > IIS > PERl > ASP > ASP.NET > PHP > SQL > MySQL > E-COMMERCE > WEB SECURITY > MESSAGE DIGEST (MD) > SSL & TLS > OPENSSL > GNUPG > Mod_SSL > CERTIFICATES > AUTHENTICATION > CERTIFICATE AUTHORITY (CA) > APACHE WITH SSL > HTTPS > MOBILE INTERNET > WML > WAP > WMLScript > M-BUSINESS

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Practical Web Technologies

P.K. Yuen

V. Lau

There are a vast number of Web technologies ranging from ASP to XSLT. If you are looking for a practical, hands-on guide to all major aspects of Web technology, this book is for you.

Practical Web Technologies

provides an instant course and a reference book for Web design beginners, programmers and engineers, as well as Web practitioners. Starting with the basics of Web design, you will be provided with step-by-step practical examples to help you design and set up functional sites on the World Wide Web. The book then moves through more advanced topics, covering subjects such as client and server scripting, e-commerce, broadcasting live video, Web databases and SSL security.

Topics covered include:

Basic - HTML/XHTML, CSS, Java, ECMAScript (or JavaScript),

XML, and XSLT

Intermediate – DOM (W3C Document Object Model),

CGI, Perl, ASP, ASP.NET, and PHP

Advanced – MySQL (Web Databases), SSL and TLS (Web Security),

WML and WMLScript (Mobile Internet)

Other key features:

  • Over 400 working examples presented in "cut and paste" format which can be used directly in other Web applications

  • Over 450 illustrations and screen shots

  • Supporting Web site at www.practical-web.com

  • About the authors

    P.K. Yuen is a publicly known expert on Communication, Internet

    and World Wide Web. He has more than 13 years working experience

    on Web technologies including large scale application developments,

    engineer training and project leadership. With his work, he filed US and

    international patents for a number of designs on images, audio and video

    transmission on the Internet and Web applications.

    V. Lau is a senior lecturer in computing in the School of Mathematics at

    Kingston University. He has much experience in teaching programming at

    various undergraduate levels and is particularly interested in teaching

    Web-related programming skills. He is the core member of the computing

    courses development team in the School of Mathematics.

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