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Epilogue | Glossary | App. A | App. BPreface
Conventions
What is an Internet-enhanced Book?
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. The Global Recipe
2.1 The Mac OS
2.1.1 Why Use a Mac?
2.1.2 Which Mac OS Version?
2.1.3 Personal Web Sharing
2.1.4 What About Rhapsody?
2.1.5 Macs in Mixed-Platform Environments2.2 Internet Ingredients
2.2.1 Internet vs. Intranet
2.2.2 Serving the Internet
2.2.3 Canon of Conduct
2.2.4 Internet Addresses
2.2.5 Server Access
2.2.6 "Content"2.3 The Internet Restaurant (Client-Server Interaction)
2.3.1 Clients and Servers
2.3.2 Internet Serving
2.3.3 Internet Dining
2.3.4 Internet Cooking
3.1 Who is the Intended Audience?
3.2 What Information Types Will I Encounter?
3.2.1 MIME Types
3.2.2 Text Files
3.2.3 Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
3.2.4 Graphics
3.2.5 Sound
3.2.6 Movies
3.2.7 Compressed Files
3.2.8 Page Definition Languages
3.2.9 VRML
3.2.10 Applets and Objects
3.2.11 A Word on Standards3.3 What Human Resources Will I Need?
3.3.1 Technical Support
3.3.2 Information Supply
3.3.3 A Note on Mail Aliases3.4 What Hardware Will I Need?
3.4.1 Network Bandwidth
3.4.2 Disk Space
3.4.3 Memory Requirements
3.4.4 CPU Requirements3.5 How Do I Connect to the Internet?
3.5.1 Choosing a Connection Method
3.5.2 Getting an IP Address and Domain Name
3.5.3 Network Software
3.5.4 Configuring the Network Software
3.5.5 Naming the Server
3.5.6 Internet Service Providers
4.1 FTP Servers
4.2 Mail Services
4.2.1 List Servers
4.2.2 Other Mail Services4.3 Web Servers
4.3.1 Emerging Server Technologies
4.4 Search Engines
4.5 Name Server
4.6 Client Software
4.6.1 Web Browsers
4.6.2 FTP Clients
4.6.3 Viewers and Players4.7 Development Tools
4.7.1 HTML Editors
4.7.2 Image Editors and Map Makers
4.7.3 Filters
5.1 Web Browsers
5.1.1 Netscape Navigator
5.1.2 Internet Explorer
5.1.3 CyberDog5.2 Using FTP
5.2.1 Fetch
5.2.2 Anarchie
5.2.3 Downloading -- An Example5.3 Using a Listserver
5.4 Graphics Viewers
5.4.1 GraphicConverter
5.4.2 Ghostscript5.5 Sound Player
5.6 Video Viewer
5.7 News Readers
5.7.1 Newswatcher
5.8 IRC Chat Client
5.8.1 ICRle
6.1 Anonymous FTP: NetPresenz
6.1.1 Installation and Configuration
6.2 E-mail Services
6.2.1 EIMS/AIMS
6.2.2 AutoShare
6.2.3 Macjordomo6.3 Web Servers
6.3.1 NetPresenz
6.3.2 Quid Pro Quo
6.3.3 WebSTAR6.4 Search Tools
6.4.1 Phantom
6.4.2 Search Server6.5 Testing Your Internet Kitchen
6.6 Example Server Recipes
6.6.1 The (Nearly) Free Mac OS 8 Web Server Cookbook Recipe
6.6.2 The Van Hacking Challenge
(Staying On-line)7.1 Basic System Maintenance
7.1.1 Backup, Backup, Backup
7.1.2 A Maintenance Routine7.2 Server Management
7.2.1 Site Management Software
7.2.2 Crash Recovery Tools
7.2.3 Monitoring Usage with Event Log7.3 Security
7.3.1 Security Tips
7.3.2 Security Tools
7.3.3 Further Information
8.1 Types of Information to Organize
8.2 Folder Hierarchy
8.2.1 A Note on Mirroring
8.3 File Naming
9.1 "Authoring" and Publishing
9.2 Hypertext and Text Markup
9.2.1 Text Markup
9.3 HTML–The Basics
9.3.1 HTML Tags
9.3.2 Basic Page Structure
9.3.3 Basic Elements
9.3.4 Character Formatting and Special Characters
9.3.5 HTML Anchors
9.3.6 Images
9.3.7 HTML Templates
9.3.8 Debugging HTML
9.3.9 HTML Editors9.4 Design Basics
9.4.1 Colors
9.4.2 Images
9.4.3 Some Guidelines9.5 Putting It All Together
9.5.1 A Personal Home Page
9.5.2 Structuring Web Documents
9.5.3 A Group's Home Page9.6 Publishing Your Web Pages
10.1 Tables
10.1.1 A Simple Example
10.1.2 A More Complex Example
10.1.3 Further Information10.2 Clickable Maps
10.2.1 Further Information
10.3 Frames
10.3.1 Layout and Content Documents
10.3.2 Frame Size and Location
10.3.3 Frame Relationships
10.3.4 Further Information10.4 Server-side Includes
10.4.1 The Include Command
10.4.2 Other Server-side Includes
10.4.3 Further Information10.5 "Active" Pages and HTML Extensions
11.1 Interactive Web Pages
11.1.1 Overcoming Stateless Interaction
11.2 Forms
11.2.1 A Simple Example
11.2.2 The <FORM> Tag
11.2.3 Input Collection Types
11.2.4 Submit and Reset
11.2.5 Further Information11.3 The Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
11.3.1 Further Information
11.4 Commonly Used Languages
11.4.1 AppleScript
11.4.2 UserLand Frontier
11.4.3 Perl11.5 Forms by Example
11.5.1 AppleScript: An E-mail Submission
11.5.2 Frontier: Soliciting Feedback
11.5.3 Perl: An Automated Archive
11.5.4 "Canned" CGIs and Forms Tools11.6 Cookies
(The Global Computer)12.1 Computing via the Internet
12.2 JavaScript
12.2.1 Hello World
12.2.2 Declaring Functions
12.2.3 Controlling the Browser
12.2.4 Baking with JavaScript: Cookies12.3 Java
12.3.1 The Java Environment
12.3.2 Java Features
12.3.3 The Simplest Application
12.3.4 The Simplest Applet
12.3.5 More Complex Applets
12.3.6 Grinding Your Own: JavaBeans
12.3.7 Java Servlets12.4 Developing with Java and JavaScript
13.1 Serving Databases
13.1.1 What is a Database?
13.1.2 Why Serve Databases?13.2 Database Connection Methods
13.2.1 Java Database Connectivity
13.3 Products and Tools
13.4 Examples
13.4.1 FileMaker Pro and Lasso Lite
13.4.2 Perl Flat-file Database
(Emerging Server Functions)14.1 Rhapsody and Mac OS X
14.1.1 Rhapsody Features
14.1.2 Web Serving on Rhapsody14.2 Webcasting
14.2.1 Channels
14.2.2 Multicasting14.3 Beyond HTML
14.3.1 Cascading Style Sheets
14.3.2 Dynamic HTML
14.3.3 XML14.4 Group and Collaborative Environments
14.4.1 CORBA
14.4.2 Person-to-Person: Look@Me
14.4.3 Virtual Worlds: MICE
14.4.4 Tele-instrumentation: CMDA and MMC
Epilogue: Food For Thought
Glossary
Appendix A: Internet-based Resources for Learning the Mac OS
Appendix B: HTML Reference Guide
Index