Building Professional Web Sites with the Right Tools : Build It With Visual Studio 6, Front Page Active Server Pages, VBS Scrip, JavaScript, ADO, Paint Shop Pro and Image Composer

by Greenburg, Jeff

• ISBN13: 9780130843173
• ISBN10: 0130843172
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: PRENTICE HALL

Summary

There's a world of great Web technology out there, but how can you make it all work together to build a Web site that achieves your goals, and works great, too? This book shows you, from planning through development, testing, deployment, and beyond. Along the way, you'll discover how to get fast results with FrontPage, Visual Studio 6, and many other great Microsoft tools and techniques. Start by identifying your site's goals and making the business case for building it. Create a high-level design; make key up-front technology decisions; and plan for feedback and advertising. Establish site-wide standards that will make your life much easier as your site grows; create a database and integrate it with your site; design graphics and navigation; and much more. Build feedback pages; track broken links; provide site help; plan and execute site tests -- and go live. This hands-on book covers the nitty-gritty tasks other Web books miss, so you can build your site faster and more effectively than ever before.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	xiii
Preface	xxiii
Acknowledgments	xxix
Introduction	xxxi
Defining the Need	1	(12)
The Business Case	2	(1)
The Software Development Cycle	2	(1)
Requirements - What They Want It To Do	3	(2)
Requirements	4	(1)
High-Level Design - What It Will Do	5	(6)
The Home Page	7	(1)
The Feedback Page	8	(1)
The Awards Page	9	(1)
The About Page	9	(1)
The Ads Page	9	(1)
The Rings Page	9	(1)
The Copyright Page	9	(2)
Summary	11	(2)
Untangling the Technology	13	(10)
HTML	14	(2)
Common Gateway Interface (CGI)	16	(1)
ASP	17	(1)
Java	18	(1)
Java Applets	19	(1)
JavaScript and VBScript	19	(1)
CSS	20	(1)
DHTML	21	(1)
ADO	22	(1)
The Solution	23	(34)
Development Platform Architecture	24	(2)
Windows 98	24	(1)
TCP/IP	25	(1)
Active Server Pages	25	(1)
FrontPage	25	(1)
Visual Interdev	25	(1)
Access	26	(1)
Netscape Communicator/Internet Explorer	26	(1)
Application Architecture	26	(3)
HTML	27	(1)
ASP	27	(1)
VBScript	27	(1)
JavaScript	28	(1)
ADO	28	(1)
DHTML	28	(1)
COM	28	(1)
CSS	28	(1)
Java Applets	28	(1)
Production Platform Architecture	29	(1)
Application Map	29	(2)
Feedback Pages	31	(13)
The Feedback Frames	32	(2)
Feedback Pre-Processor	34	(3)
New Category Request	37	(1)
Category Comments	38	(1)
New Link Page	39	(2)
General Comments Page	41	(1)
Award Nomination Page	42	(1)
Feedback Post-Processor	43	(1)
Awards Page	44	(1)
About Page	44	(1)
Advertising Page	45	(1)
Copyright Page	46	(1)
Rings Page	46	(1)
Home (Main) Page	47	(8)
DEFAULT.HTM	47	(1)
Navigation Frame	48	(1)
Title Frame	49	(1)
For-Profit Ad Frame	49	(1)
Non-Profit Ad Frame	50	(1)
For-Profit Rotating Ad Frame	51	(1)
Categories Frame	51	(4)
Cascading Style Sheets	55	(2)
The DIY Store	57	(38)
Paint Shop Pro 5.01	58	(4)
FrontPage '98	62	(7)
Image Composer 1.5	69	(5)
Visual InterDev 6.0 & Servers	74	(16)
Enabling ASP	90	(5)
Standards	95	(12)
Naming Standards	98	(3)
Coding Standards	101	(3)
HTML Coding Standards	104	(1)
Comments	105	(1)
Error Handling	106	(1)
The Database	107	(28)
Why A Database?	107	(1)
Creating the Database	108	(2)
The Elements	110	(4)
Categories	112	(1)
Links	112	(1)
Ads	112	(2)
Normalizing	114	(7)
Creating the Database Tables	121	(10)
Categories	121	(7)
Links	128	(1)
LinkCat	129	(1)
Ads	129	(1)
AdCat	129	(1)
Summary	129	(2)
Creating the Data Source Name	131	(4)
The Graphics	135	(48)
Button It Up	136	(9)
Show Me the Way	145	(17)
Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity Jig	146	(8)
A Matter of Direction	154	(8)
A Name To Remember	162	(8)
And Now a Word From Our Sponsors	170	(13)
The Environment	183	(18)
The Blowhole Web	183	(4)
The Visual Interdev Solution	187	(5)
Connecting a DSN	192	(9)
Home	201	(10)
The Utility Pages	211	(48)
Navigation Banner	211	(11)
The Ad Page	222	(21)
The Copyright Page	243	(3)
The Awards Page	246	(9)
Rings Page	255	(4)
Home Again	259	(106)
Cascading Style Sheet	259	(8)
The Title Bar	267	(2)
The Navigation Banner	269	(9)
ASP Files	278	(2)
The Categories Frame	280	(50)
The For-Profit Rotating Ad	330	(6)
For-Profit Static Ad	336	(5)
The Non-Profit Rotating Ad	341	(6)
The Links Frame	347	(7)
The Greeting	354	(1)
The Redirect Page	355	(2)
Creating an SQL Query	357	(3)
What's it All About?	360	(5)
Feedback	365	(70)
The Feedback Page	366	(11)
Subroutine Library	377	(13)
Feedback Preprocessor	390	(28)
Postprocessor	418	(9)
Broken Links	427	(4)
Award Nomination	431	(4)
Help!	435	(14)
This is Only a Test!	449	(28)
Test Plan	449	(4)
Executing the Plan	453	(24)
Going Live!	477	(6)
Selecting an ISP	477	(1)
Selecting a Web Hoster	477	(1)
Obtaining a Domain	478	(2)
Publishing your site	480	(1)
Marketing the site	481	(2)
Epilogue	483	(2)
Appendix A The Web Site	485	(2)
Appendix B Dynamic Billboard	487	(40)
Index	527