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Web Application Design Handbook: Best Practices for Web-Based Software (Interactive Technologies)

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Web Application Design Handbook

Web Application Design Handbook: Best Practices for Web-Based Software (Interactive Technologies)
Susan Fowler , and Victor Stanwick
Manufacturer: Morgan Kaufmann
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Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition
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Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design
Web Application Architecture: Principles, Protocols and Practices

ASIN: 1558607528

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"Susan and Victor have written the 'Junior Woodchucks Guidebook' of Web applications: Everything you need to know is in there, including tons of best-practice examples, insights from years of experience, and assorted fascinating arcana. If you're writing a Web application, you'd be foolish not to have a copy."
--Steve Krug, author of Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

"Web sites are so nineties. The cutting edge of Web-design has moved to Web applications. If you are, like many Web designers, struggling to create dynamic, highly-functional Web-based applications, you need this book. It describes how Web applications differ from Web sites, and provides excellent guidance for common Web-application design problems, such as navigation, data input, search, reports, forms, and interactive graphic output."
--Jeff Johnson, Principal Usability Consultant, UI Wizards, Inc., and author of Web Bloopers and GUI Bloopers

"User interface designers have been debating among themselves for years about how to design effective Web applications. There were no comprehensive references that covered the myriad topics that emerged in these debates until Fowler and Stanwick took on the challenge and wrote Web Application Design Handbook, the first comprehensive guide to building Web applications. This book tackles design problems faced by every Web development team with uncommon wisdom, clear prose, and detailed examples. Key topics include: modifying the browser interface to meet application security and efficiency requirements, searching, sorting, filtering, building efficient and usable data input mechanisms, generating reports, preventing errors, and using creative visualization techniques to optimize the display of large sets of data. This thorough work should be a primary reference for everyone designing Web applications."
--Chauncey E. Wilson, Principal HCI Architect, WilDesign Consulting

"Every so often you run into a book and say to yourself: 'It's so obvious that this book should be read by every developer, so why wasn't it written years ago?' This is one of those books."
--Scott Ambler, author of The Object Primer: Agile Model Driven Development with UML 2

The standards for usability and interaction design for Web sites and software are well known. While not everyone uses those standards, or uses them correctly, there is a large body of knowledge, best practice, and proven results in those fields, and a good education system for teaching professionals "how to." For the newer field of Web application design, however, designers are forced to reuse the old rules on a new platform. This book provides a roadmap that will allow readers to put complete working applications on the Web, display the results of a process that is running elsewhere, and update a database on a remote server using an Internet rather than a network connection.

Web Application Design Handbook describes the essential widgets and development tools that will the lead to the right design solutions for your Web application. Written by designers who have made significant contributions to Web-based application design, it delivers a thorough treatment of the subject for many different kinds of applications, and provides quick reference for designers looking for some fast design solutions and opportunities to enhance the Web application experience. This book adds flavor to the standard Web design genre by juxtaposing Web design with programming for the Web and covers design solutions and concepts, such as intelligent generalization, to help software teams successfully switch from one interface to another.

* The first interaction design book that focuses exclusively on Web applications.
* Full-color figures throughout the book.
* Serves as a "cheat sheet" or "fake book" for designers: a handy reference for standards, rules of thumb, and tricks of the trade.
* Applicable to new Web-based applications and for porting existing desktop applications to Web browsers.

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The standards for usability and interaction design for web sites and software are well known. While not everyone uses those standards, or uses them correctly, there is a large body of knowledge, best practice, and proven results in those two large fields, and a good education system for teaching professionals "how to." For the relatively new field of web application design, however, many designers reuse the old rules in a new platform: no new best practices yet exist. This book, written by designers with a significant contribution to web-based application design, delivers a thorough treatment of the subject for many different kinds of applications, plus a quick reference for designers looking for some fast design solutions and opportunities to enhance the web application experience.

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Complete waste of money for me.......2007-06-12

If you are looking something technological like I was or even theories, this isn't the book. And usually I think the pictures and examples are a good thing, but in this book it seemed that they were there to fill space. Can't recommend. But then again, it might be just because I misunderstood what the book was about and expected something more concrete.

Very Disappointed - Design or Development?.......2007-02-10

I bought this book because Krug's book (Don't Make Me Think) recommended it and because my main concern was web-based business applications not public web sites.

I was extremely disappointed by Web Application Design Handbook:
1) It doesn't say much more than what any Windows developer has known
for the past 10 years
2) It is full of discussions about software DEVELOPMENT but it is
supposed to be a DESIGN book
3) It is supposed to be a book about WEB design but half of it is
about reports, graphs, diagrams, and maps

The first half of the book concentrates on what was advertised: design/usability of web-based applications. But it doesn't offer many new ideas. Most of the recommendations are well-known to Windows developers. It doesn't give enough attention to what's different about web-based applications.

The amount of useful, thought-provoking information in this book that could help a Windows developer create better web-based applications is no more than 50 pages. Not very good for a book of 600 pages.

The book does not inspire confidence that the recommendations are based on real usability testing. There's a lot of conventional wisdom followed by a lot of suggestions to figure it out yourself with your own usability tests.

The book has a maddening tendency to slip into development issues. Why on earth are there JavaScript code examples in a design book???!!! Why are there discussions about the impact of client vs server-side code on network bandwidth? Not only are these discussions distracting, they are also full of half-truths, oversimplifications, obsolete information, and some outright mistakes.

Almost 2/3 of the book is about topics that are beyond the scope of web application design (ok they're at least straining the limits): reports, graphs, diagrams, maps. That material would be handled better in a separate book, dedicated to those topics. As it is, most of the book is irrelevant to my needs.

If you are concerned with usability/GUI design of web sites or web applications forget this book and get Krug's Don't Make Me Think instead.

Nice and Solid GUI Design Handbook.......2006-04-26

This book helped me a lot as in my day-to day work. I used it as powerful guide for the construction of the "nice and pleasant" presentation layer for our applications. Our customers were happy - and it is the best feedback somebody can give.

I would definitely recommend this book to the wide range of Software Designers, Developers and Managers. Profession GUI always makes a difference!

Good Reference for Application Design.......2005-11-02

As a technical writer in the computer industry, I can only say that I wish every application engineer would have this book on their shelf so that, inbetween downloading music, videotaping the next cubicle and creating web applications, every once in awhile they could take it down, read a few pages and learn to design better programs. The usability of a web application can make or break a rollout and when it's a badly designed system, it can confuse hundreds of people, require separate training, and just plain waste money. Perhaps managers of web application efforts should get this as a "gift" for their designers.

Web Application Design Handbook .......2005-10-12

It has been stated that the majority of people creating maps today have little in the way of formal cartographic education or background. If this statement is true, then this is the ideal reference book for developers assigned the task of building web-based mapping applications.

Although the Web Application Design Handbook is much more than a guide for developing interactive maps, its chapters on mapping will be especially helpful to developers who need to understand when to use geographic maps and how best to accomplish that. Beginning with basic map design concepts such as data formats, appropriate use of colour, scale, projection and dealing with map error; the authors then give the reader something further to consider while looking at the various uses of spatial statistics and discussing data classification and geographic distribution methods. This section then concludes with examples of various types of maps and how each can be used, which if nothing else, should serve to get a developer's creative juices flowing.

Overall this should be an excellent reference for anyone designing and developing web-based applications, and as such, developers would be well advised to make sure they always have their own personal copy handy.

Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines

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Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines
Sanjay J. Koyani , Robert W. Bailey , and Janice R. Nall
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Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition
Usability for the Web: Designing Web Sites that Work (Interactive Technologies)
Prioritizing Web Usability (VOICES)
Access by Design: A Guide to Universal Usability for Web Designers (VOICES)
Web Usability: A User-Centered Design Approach

ASIN: 0974996904

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Buy the Book.......2004-11-13

These guidelines are available for free on the web at http://usability.gov/pdfs/guidelines.html. But, the best way to view then is on paper and not on your computer monitor. Do be warned if you try to print, you will need a color printer, as much of the information is lost in black and white. So, save yourself a big hassle and the cost of much toner/ink - buy the book!

The 187 peer-reviewed guidelines are each rated on a 1 to 5 scale to indicate the strength of evidence supporting its hypothesis. These are not ideas promoted by one organization to further its reputation or advance its agenda. This is the result of review and input from experts from government, academia, and the private sector. Your tax dollars were spent developing these unbiased guidelines. They provide a roadmap that should help designers and developers avoid problems and produce more effective websites.

You can preview the book at the URL above. It's a ground-breaking reference and guide you don't want to be without.

The Handbook of Human Factors in Web Design (Human Factors & Ergonomics)

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An excellent resource for web designers and developers interested in the research behind the guidelines

The Handbook of Human Factors in Web Design (Human Factors & Ergonomics)

Manufacturer: CRC
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Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become

ASIN: 0805846123

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The Handbook covers basic human factors issues relating to screen design, input devices, and information organization and processing, as well as addresses newer features which will become prominent in the next generation of Web technologies. These

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An excellent resource for web designers and developers interested in the research behind the guidelines.......2006-08-14

Consider the following questions about web design:

*Which font is the best to use for online information?
*What kind of navigation structure best supports user performance?
*What does airplane cockpit research have to do with effective web design?
*How can you design and measure search interfaces to ensure that users view the search results as relevant?
*What must a web designer do in order to ensure that web-based content is accessible to users with physical and cognitive disabilities?
*What task analysis, knowledge elicitation, and user modeling methods are best suited for developing web interfaces and systems?

This handbook gives readers the answers to these questions and more. The book provides a comprehensive treatment of human factors research methods, design guidelines, and processes for use in developing effective websites and web-based technologies. Its 38 chapters are written for a wide audience, and many of the chapter authors lead the field in human factors research and web interface development.

Topics range from the history of human factors and the origins of networked computing, to research methods for understanding user needs and task requirements, to effective interface design guidelines and emerging technologies in the field. Each chapter contains a rich collection of historical and contemporary references, and many chapters provide the reader with links to additional information available online. While some of the information published in this book can be found elsewhere, this text is truly a "one stop shop."

If you can only get one book on web design guidelines and methods (as well as the human factors research behind them), this is the one to have!

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Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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The Oxford Library of Psychology is a major new publishing initiative. Over the coming years it will come to define what psychology is, and where it is going. Comprising of a vast range of individual handbooks, all edited and written by the leaders in their respective fields, the library will map out the entire field of psychology. It will cover major subsections, such as social psychology and cognitive psychology, as well as smaller, though no less important fields, like audition, haptic processing, evolutionary psychology and social neuroscience. What do we know about how people behave in cyberspace? Since the birth of the internet, we have witnessed alarming demonstrations of just how the power of the internet can be harnessed by those with darker motives - terrorists, sexual offenders, criminals. What is it about this unique environment that might cause people to behave in ways they might never consider in the outside world? As more and more scientists become interested in establishing how the internet environment changes the way we think, behave, and take responsibility, the Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology provides the definitve reference work on internet behaviour. In 45 chapters, all written especially for the volume, it sets out our current knowledge of behaviour on the internet, and where future research will take us.

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A book to teach you how to film
Like Who Wants To Be A Millionaire!
Puts you in the director's chair.

Microsoft Windows Movie Maker Handbook
Seth McEvoy , Bill Birney , and Matt Lichtenberg
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Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (a.k.a. Windows Me) endows Microsoft's everyday operating system with considerable multimedia capability, including video editing. The Microsoft Windows MovieMaker Handbook explains how to use the video-editing tools that ship with Windows Me to assemble video presentations. Perhaps more importantly, the authors relate knowledge about moviemaking--enabling you to plan and create videos that are more emotionally moving, persuasive, and technically attractive. They do a good job of communicating the importance of high production values in every video creation, whether professional or amateur, and appropriately place the editing tools themselves second in importance, behind good conceptual thinking.

In a typical section, the authors explain differences in editing styles. Documentary editing in the cinéma vérité style, for example, involves stringing together clips, often out of chronological sequence, in order to convey a larger truth about the subject. They explain camera moves ("dolly in," "pedestal up"), too. Coverage would be better if authors had included examples from famous movies and television shows (the jerky camera in "Homicide," the window in the series of dissolves at the beginning of "Citizen Kane"). Sections on Windows MovieMaker and the other Windows Me tools are adequate--it's the background information on moviemaking that gives this book its value. --David Wall

Topics covered: Fundamentals of cinematography, video editing, and the other technical aspects of moviemaking, as facilitated by the tools that come with Microsoft Windows Me. Sections deal with planning shots, writing scripts, arranging lights, and capturing video to digital format. Coverage of the Windows MovieMaker software documents the editing suite fully, from the everyday user's point of view.

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Whether it's graduation day, baby's first bite of birthday cake, or your own made-for-PC mini-series, the MICROSOFT MOVIE MAKER HANDBOOK makes it easy to create and share movies over the Web. MovieMaker software is part of the new Microsoft Windows(r) Millennium Edition (Windows Me) operating system, and this book delivers inside insights direct from members of the MovieMaker team. With it, users learn how to record audio and video source material, create storyboards, edit and arrange footage, add titles, music, sound effects, and voice-overs-then store, play, or send! The companion CD-ROM comes loaded with ready-to-use audio, still images, and video content-providing everything the next desktop director needs to make movies on a home PC.

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A book to teach you how to film.......2002-06-25

Not only the handbook for Microsoft Windows Movie Maker, this book introduces the ways to film to make your home movie more interesting. Instead of shooting without any plan, home video amateurs can really take advantage of the suggestions in the book for better planning to get better entertaining result.

Like Who Wants To Be A Millionaire!.......2001-11-28

I think this is a good book on Movie Makers by author Seth McEvoy and on the cover it reminds me like Who Wants To Be A Millionaire becuase of the cover!

This is another good book I like.

The pictures are cool.

Puts you in the director's chair........2000-11-04

Microsoft brings the ability to make movies right to the desktop with Windows ME. This book takes that adventure and shows you the techniques that will have you making, editing and showing movies to your friends in no time flat.

Of course you do need to have a camcorder, a computer and Windows ME installed, but other than that this book is all you will need. Divided into three parts, The Basics, Movie Maker and Advanced uses the book makes sure you understand the concepts and best of all you learn as you go.

In Part 1 you learn about making movies, planning, production tools, shooting and editing and finally distributing movies. In part 2 you the chance to take your movies and put them in the Movie Maker application, you'll also start organizing, editing and sharing the movies with family and friends.

Finally part 3 has you doing more advanced techniques like working with stills, adding sound effects and how to use the media player to play the movies you have created. The Cd-rom include has media player version 7, some ready to use videos and stills to practice with, images and sounds and a few other production tools.

If you are into the creation of movies or want to have some fun with home movies this book should allow you the let out the creative genius inside. Overall a very good book.

The Official eBay Bible, Third Edition: The Newly Revised and Updated Version of the Most Comprehensive eBay How-To Manual for Everyone from First-Time Users to eBay Experts

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The Official eBay Bible, Third Edition: The Newly Revised and Updated Version of the Most Comprehensive eBay How-To Manual for Everyone from First-Time Users to eBay Experts
Jim Griffith
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The Official eBay Bible

ASIN: 1592403018
Release Date: 2007-08-02

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Jim "Griff" Griffith, eBay's official ambassador, presents the definitive sourcebook on all things eBay, for beginners to seasoned users alike.

Uncle Griff, Dean of eBay Education, brings us the latest on all things eBay with the only officially endorsed and authorized guide to this phenomenal auction site. The Official eBay Bible has sold more than 150,000 copies in previous editions and eBay today is bigger than ever, with 203 million registered users and 541,000 official eBay stores nationwide. The Official eBay Bible, Third Edition is fully revised and totally updated with all of the latest changes to the site, making all previous books on eBay obsolete.

Much more than a user's guide, The Official eBay Bible, Third Edition includes the inspiring stories of real-life buyers and sellers, as well as tips and tricks on some of the powerful, but little-known aspects ofusing the site. This definitive sourcebook includes instructional plans for users of all levels, whether they're running a small business through the site or simply enjoying it as a hobby. New features in the thirdedition include: a new streamlined organization, images of all the latest features and screens, and even more information for small-business owners. Packed with over seven hundred illustrations, The Official eBay Bible, Third Edition delivers the ultimate word on eBay, from an insider who has been there from the beginning.

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The Internet handbook for school users
Nancy Protheroe
Manufacturer: Educational Research Service
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Internet User's Handbook 2002 (Internet User's Handbook)

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Accessibly address the basics of getting an ISP

Internet User's Handbook 2002 (Internet User's Handbook)
Mark P. Ater , and Betty Ater
Manufacturer: McFarland & Company
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ASIN: 0786413263

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This fully updated and revised edition of the original work (“packed full of useful facts, hints, and advice...a wealth of information”—Against the Grain) provides current information for everyone presently using the Internet or wishing to start. Its everyday language and simplicity of presentation reduce the complexities. The handbook answers the most commonly asked questions about choosing a computer and other hardware for using the Internet, the software to accompany it, and the service providers that give access to the Internet. Searching, downloading, e-mailing, listening to music and MP3, obtaining free stuff, shopping, using credit cards online, gambling, participating in auction sites, making travel arrangements, playing games, earning rewards and points, banking and paying bills, researching hobby interests, and obtaining information from local, state, and the federal government are all fully covered.

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Accessibly address the basics of getting an ISP.......2002-05-06

Internet User's Handbook 2002 by internet experts Mark and Betty Ater is a handy, practical, user-friendly guide to people of all ages and skill levels to the ever-changing informational resource and misinformation minefield that is the Internet. Individual chapters accessibly address the basics of getting an Internet Service Provider, do's and don'ts on the net, using a credit card online, online leisure activities and much more. Black-and-white computer screenshots enhance this simple yet highly useful, strongly recommended guidebook.

MH & xmh: Email for Users & Programmers (Nutshell Handbooks)

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MH & xmh: Email for Users & Programmers (Nutshell Handbooks)
Jerry Peek
Manufacturer: O'Reilly
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There are lots of mail programs in use these days, but MH is one of the most durable and flexible. MH gives users the ability to combine email and shell programming capabilities to create powerful and customized mail environments. Best of all, MH is freely available on almost all UNIX systems. MH has spawned a number of interfaces in addition to the shell command line, too. This book covers three popular interfaces: xmh (for the X environment), exmh (written with tcl/tk), and mh-e (for GNU Emacs users).

MH & xmh: Email for Users & Programmers first gives the reader the basic information needed to get started. The information in these "quick tour" chapters is expanded in later chapters so that users can go beyond the basic functions of a mailer and create a customized email environment. This book contains useful examples, tips, tricks, and documented and undocumented features that the author learned in thirteen years as an MH user, instructor, programmer, and system administrator. This book has been described as the "MH bible" because of its complete treatment of MH and its interfaces.

The book contains:

A quick tour through MH, xmh, exmh, and mh-e for new users
Configuration and customization information
Lots of tips and techniques for programmers -- and plenty of practical examples for everyone
Information beyond the manual pages, explaining how to make MH do things you never thought an email program could do

In addition, the third edition describes the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) and how to use it with these mail programs. MIME is an extension that allows users to send graphics, sound, and other multimedia formats through mail between otherwise incompatible systems.

Whole Internet Users Guide and Catalog (Nutshell Handbook)

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By the author of "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Internet"
The best Internet Handbook!
A great book for net-novices who aren't computer-illiterates
Great, but slightly out of date
Too complicated

Whole Internet Users Guide and Catalog (Nutshell Handbook)
Ed Krol , and Paula M. Ferguson
Manufacturer: Oreilly Assoc Inc
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ASIN: 1565920252

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An exclusive academic edition of the bestselling Internet textbook on the market, The Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog unlocks the Internet's vast resources. Co-published by O'Reilly & Associates and Integrated Media Group (IMG), an imprint of Wadsworth Publishing Company, and adapted into a textbook by Bruce Klopfenstein, this specialized book covers everything from basics such as electronic mail to the newest developments.

By keeping technical language to a minimum, The Whole Internet is completely accessible to novice computer users. This edition adds creative figures depicting network functions to demonstrate otherwise complicated and technical information graphically, and adds research-oriented examples to help you use the Internet for academic research purposes. It also supplies information about news groups and FTP archives, eliminates some of the more complex UNIX information, and expands its glossary and resource listings.

Other key elements in The Whole Internet include:

An introduction to Netscape Navigator 2.0b
An introduction to Multimedia email
Coverage of the latest improvements to services including Gopher, Archie, and WAIS
An Internet address for students to access additional assignments
More information for Windows and Macintosh users

This book is intended for any student who wants to become an expert at accessing the Internet and World Wide Web's tremendous resources. It's a book for university, community college, and high school students and teachers. This revision of the second edition of The Whole Internet is designed for those who want to use the network particularly for research applications. It is not intended in any way as an engineer's guide to internetworking, and you do not need to learn UNIX to use it. Some references to UNIX remain, but those that do are there only for the benefit of those who already know a little bit about UNIX or might choose to learn more. The classroom instructor can certainly help steer his/her students clear of any sections that still sneak into the UNIX world.

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By the author of "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Internet".......2000-11-27

Everyone has to start somewhere. Most people think that the World-wide Web is the Internet. Others are still trying to spell DARPA. The topics covered in this book include: . What the Internet is, how it works, and what you can do. . Basic Internet utilities (telnet, ftp) . Electronic mail and USENET News (bulletin Boards) . How to find the resources you want with tools like Archie Gopher, WAIS, and the World-wide Web. . What recourses are available: a catalog of over 300 resources, on topics ranging form Aeronautics to Zymurgy. . How to get connected to the Internet: a list of Internet service Providers.

To really take advantage of this book it is best to have a shell account. Then you can go where no browser has gone before.

The best Internet Handbook!.......1999-10-19

Very well written! The organization of this book offers the reader the option to learn a little or dig deeper, either way, the reader will gain functional, usable knowledge. Each chapter builds upon itself, making digestion of complex material very simple. I highly recommend reading this if you want more than AOL has to offer!

A great book for net-novices who aren't computer-illiterates.......1998-02-10

The first book I ever read about the internet. I got this book way back in '92 (or perhaps the spring of '93). It was one of only two books that were out (at least that people knew about on the net), the other one being The Hitchikers Guide to the Internet, or something like that. I still have the old copy, so I can't vouch for the newest releases, but since the author is the same, I trust his text has only improved. It was a great book to start out learning about the net because it didn't just skim the surface, but got into the nitty gritty of many different aspects, including email, ftp, the web (then in its infancy), usenet news, telnet, WAIS, GOPHER, and even connecting your computer to the net (not an easy task in 1992!), and more, all in just 350 or so pages! It was enough to get me hooked and to make all the cryptic unix commands that you had to deal with if you were connecting via a university (not many other choices back then) seem a little less cryptic. If you are a relative newcomer to the net, this book is a great place to start, unless you are very computer-illiterate, in which case you'll probably have an easier time with a Dummies book which doesn't go into as much detail. Even for those who are not so new to the net, Kroll has a good deal of historical information about the net and some stuff on the actual network systems that connect everything - the mbones and all that - so you will gain a lot from this as well. All in all, a very useful book!

Great, but slightly out of date.......1997-12-13

I really liked this book. It was recommended to me by a web-designer friend. He gave me the book to read and told me what was out of date. The parts that are still usable were very informative, but when it comes to computers you must admit that it is better to get a new publication. I hope he writes a third edition soon, I'll buy the first copy.

Too complicated.......1997-10-02

This book was WAAAAYYYY to complicated for the average person.

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