mod_perl embeds the popular programming language Perl in the Apache web server, giving rise to a fast and powerful web programming environment. Practical mod_perl is the definitive book on how to use, optimize, and troubleshoot mod_perl. New mod_perl users will learn how to quickly and easily get mod_perl compiled and installed.

В книжке представлен весь диапазон идущих в ногу со временем технологий творения Web-страниц. За базу приняты новые стандарты интернет-консорциума, такие как HTML 4.01, XHTML и CSS 2. Главное внимание уделяется их практическому использованию и сопоставимости с броузерами MSIE и Netscape. Отдельная часть посвящена языку javascript и его взаимодействию со страничками - динамическому HTML.

This beginner's guide is packed with information, tips, and tricks, based on the author's extensive experience with Apache Roller. In next to no time, you will be able to build and deploy your own blog. The clear and concise hands-on exercises will teach you everything you need to know to install, configure, and use Apache Roller, along with the open source software required to run it. The book includes plenty of illustrations to guide you through all the detailed exercises and tutorials, so you can get the most out of every chapter. If you are interested in establishing a blog, using Apache Roller and popular web applications to write attractive posts and promote your blog on all the major social bookmarking services, this book is for you. No previous experience on Tomcat, MySQL, the Apache Web Server, or Linux is required.

Blogging can help you deepen customer loyalty, reach new customers, gain indispensable feedback, and drive more sales. This no-nonsense guide shows how to craft a business blog that does all that, and more–building your business and increasing your profits. Top e-marketers and business bloggers Eric Butow and Rebecca Bollwitt help you define clear goals, generate the right content with the right tools, attract visitors, build communities, and avoid costly mistakes. They draw on their own extensive experience, as well as the work of innovators from companies such as Intel, Wal-Mart, Google, HP, and BusinessWeek. Whatever your role in the business, you’ll learn how to:

• Launch a blog that truly represents the best of your business
• Create a comprehensive, long-term blogging strategy
• Staff your blogging initiative
• Integrate blogs with other offline and online marketing programs
• Use your blog to drive customers and prospects to the business
• Push up-to-the-minute information to customers via RSS
• Build a thriving online community–and learn from what it tells you
• Manage comments(and decide whether to have them)
• Utilize podcasts, vlogs, microblogging, and other new techniques
• Gain business value from hot new Web 3.0 technologies, including widgets, mashups, personal agents, and the Semantic Web

Imagine a publisher who wants to "stamp" his ebooks on the fly with the name of the buyer(to discourage sharing). Such a publisher would(and we know one who does)use iText for the task. Developers looking to enhance web- and other applications with dynamic PDF document generation and/or manipulation will find this book unique in content and readability. Based on ongoing examples that encourage learning "in action," they will finally understand PDF and learn how to build applications that produce professional, high-quality PDF documents. While the basic functionality of iText is easy to acquire, this book lowers the learning curve for more advanced functionality.

Tucking a few javascript statements in among the HTML code that makes up your Web pages makes a dramatic difference. Enhanced, more interactive navigation buttons, user input validation, and scrolling messages are but a few of the improvements that you can make with javascript.

Now, with javascript For Dummies Quick Reference, all the javascript statements and examples of how to use them are right at your fingertips. Internet technology expert Emily A. Vander Veer not only organizes all the relevant HTML and javascript topics for easy access but also points out potential pitfalls, offers neat tricks, and provides complete code for doing such things as interacting with cookies, displaying pop-up messages, and making your script compatible with javascript-challenged Web browsers.

Best of all, javascript For Dummies Quick Reference features handy cross-references to topics covered in greater depth in javascript For Dummies.

ASP.NET 2.0 is the new version of Microsoft's groundbreaking server-side scripting language. There is currently a huge demand to integrate dynamic content into Flash websites and applications and, as a solid competitor to technologies such as JSP, PHP, and ColdFusion, ASP.NET is one of the most popular choices to achieve this. Used in conjunction with Flash, ASP.NET can process, store, and create new data, and work as a bridge between the Flash movie and external data sources, enabling web designers to build dynamic, interactive web applications, incorporating information from a host of databases. Whether you're a Flash designer or an ASP.NET developer, this highly readable Foundation book will provide a a thorough grounding to integrating Flash, ActionScript 2.0, ASP.NET, and databases. Along the way you’ll study features such as email integration, saving visitor information, dynamic updating, and much more. Foundation ASP.NET 2.0 for Flash will take you through the essentials of ASP.NET/C#, setting up your development environment, sending data to and from Flash, database integration, and then on to advanced topics such as web services, Flash Remoting, XML data, and securing your applications.

Real World XML Web Services is the Visual Basic programmer's definitive guide to designing and building Web services. It provides developers with a comprehensive understanding of Web services, covering everything from basic concepts and solutions to interoperability problems. This book begins with a concise and practical introduction to Web services and the foundation on which they are built, including Web Services Description Language(WSDL)and Simple Object Access Protocol(SOAP). Readers learn, by example, how to use each tool for developing Web services, starting with the SOAP Toolkit and the.NET framework.

Visual Basic programmers discover how to:
* Use XML Schema to define Web service messages
* Use SOAP for messaging and Remote Procedure Calls(RPC)
* Read and modify WSDL documents
* Build Web services with the SOAP Toolkit
* Create and invoke Web services using the.NET framework
* Implement SOAP headers and use SOAP Fault
* Develop interface-based Web services
* Handle data in.NET Web services, including objects, arrays, and DataSets
* Use SOAP extensions to build reusable infrastructure for security and compression
* Use Universal Description Discovery and Integration(UDDI)at design time and run time
* Understand the architecture of other popular toolkits, such as Apache SOAP for Java, and learn how to solve interoperability problems

The book closes by walking the reader through the creation of a Web service with.NET and Visual Basic 6 clients. Real World XML Web Services empowers Visual Basic programmers to design and build the next generation of applications using Web services.

Create and host educational and professional e-portfolios and personalized learning communities
* Create, customize, and maintain an impressive personal digital portfolio with a simple point-and-click interface
* Set customized access to share your text files, images, and videos with your family, friends, and others
* Create online learning communities and social networks through groups, blogs, and forums
* A step-by-step approach that takes you through examples with ample screenshots and clear explanations

* Walks readers through the process of creating a basic Web site from scratch using HMTL, the basis for billions of Web pages, and then jazzing it up with advanced techniques from the authors award-winning sites
* This updated edition features new material that shows readers how to attract visitors to a site and keep them there, including new javascript examples and coverage of cascading style sheets and XHTML, technologies that make building successful Web sites even easier
* Also features exciting new tips and tricks for beginning and advanced users, as well as more expanded examples and samples for users to incorporate in their own sites
* The book moves from basic design and deployment to advanced page layout strategies, showing how to spice up new or existing sites with sound, video, and animation

This new release in the popular How to Do Everything series explains how to build open source web applications with MySQL and PHP 5. Using these two tools, you’ll be able to create highly functional, interactive web sites easily. Follow along with a step-by-step sample application and, as a bonus, download three full-length case studies complete with code trees.

This book takes a comprehensive look at Magento, a robust and flexible e-commerce platform built on the Zend framework. With over 750,000 downloads, Magento is the fastest growing open source e-commerce solution. This book walks you through all of the steps necessary to build a fully functional Magento-based web site. It also includes information on managing products, customers, and orders. This book is directed at web site designers and developers, but will also be extremely useful for business owners who have web sites built on the Magento platform.