9. Publishing Online

This chapter discusses the caveats of using Publisher as a Web development tool.

Back in the mid 1990s, I started a mail order business. Although my business model revolved primarily around catalog sales, I knew that the Internet was going to be the next big thing, and I wanted to create an online store. The problem was that I didn’t know anything about web programming (never mind the fact that online stores weren’t yet possible).

Because I didn’t really know anything about web development, I talked to a long-time friend who knew something about programming on the Web (today he owns a web development company). My friend told me that if I didn’t want to take the time to learn a programming language, I could create web pages ...

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