Building professional Web sites with the right tools - Jeff Greenberg

Build complete, interactive Web sites from scratch, using Microsofts hottest tools, plus JavaScript and PaintShop Pro - and have fun doing it! Make todays hottest Web technologies work together to create a site that achieves your goals, looks great, and works great, too! Everything you need to know is here, start to finish - from planning through development, testing, deployment, and beyond. Along the way, youll discover how to get fast results with Visual Studio 6, FrontPage, Active Server Pages, VBScript, JavaScript, Paint Shop Pro, and many other great tools. Best of all, you wont just learn what to do, youll learn why - as well as what not to do! Start by identifying your sites goals and making the business case for building it. Next, create a high-level design; make key up-front technology decisions; and plan for feedback, advertising, and smooth site evolution. Then, discover easy, practical techniques for accomplishing all this: * Create great web graphics and navigation with Paint Shop Pro and Microsoft Image Composer * Integrate databases into your site - step-by-step!;* Use Cascading Style Sheets to enrich the look and capabilities of your pages * Provide interactive database-driven content * Build feedback pages and provide site help * Plan and run site tests - and go live! Hands-on and practical, this book covers the nitty-gritty, day-to-day tasks other Web development books skip - so you can build your site faster and more effectively than you ever imagined!