Internet & World Wide Web

The goal of this comprehensive book is to introduce readers with little or no programming experience to the exciting world of Web-based applications by teaching the fundamentals needed to program on the Internet. Hundreds of LIVE-CODE examples (i.e., complete, working programs) of real applications throughout the book and on the accompanying CD allow readers to run the applications and see and hear the outputs. The authors instruct readers about incorporating multimedia into Web pages and Web-based applications to enhance the presentation of online content. Contains coverage of introductory programming principles, various markup languages (XHTML, Dynamic HTML and XML), several scripting languages (JavaScript, VBScript, Perl, Python, PHP, ColdFusion and Flash ActionScript), Web servers (IIS and Apache) and relational databases (MySQL). New in this edition are chapters on Macromedia ColdFusion and Macromedia Dreamweaver. For novice programmers who want to get started building real-world, industrial-strength, Web-based applications.