Teaching a New Dog Old Tricks

Contents at a glance

Expanded table of contents

Introduction

1. Title Page
2. Release Notes
3. Table of contents
4. Acknowledgements
5. About and how to get this book
6. Overview and demonstration Page

Being an Information Consumer

1. Client/server model of computing
2. Uniform resource locators (URLs)
3. Macintosh-based WWW Browsers
• America Online Web Browser
• eWorld World Wide Web Browser
• MacWeb
• NCSA Mosaic
• Netscape
• TCP/Connect II
4. Hotlist utilities
• Clay Basket
• Cyber Link
• CyberFinder
• Duke of URL
• GrabNet
• Hotlist Grabber
• Hotlist Sorter
• Hotlist2HTML
• Internet Site
• URLKey
5. WWW Helper Applications
• Acrobat Reader
• Drop Stuff w/Expander Enhancer
• Fast Player
• Ghostscript (MacGS Viewer)
• GIF Converter
• GraphicConverter
• JPEGView
• MacBinary II+
• MacGzip
• Sound Machine
• SoundApp
• Sparkle
• Stuffit Expander
• Tar for the Macintosh
6. Extending WWW Browsers
• Flypaper
• Scripting WWW Browsers
• WebRunner

Being an Information Provider

1. Macintosh-based HTTP servers
• FTPd
• httpd4Mac
• MacHTTP
• WebSTAR
2. Bringing Up a MacHTTP Server
3. MacHTTP configuration
4. Server enhancements and evaluation tools
• Annotate
• Count WWWebula
• Email.cgi
• folder_list2
• Index CGI
• Kelly's Error.acgi
• MacHTTP AppleGuide
• Randomgif.acgi
• Redirect.acgi
• ServerStat Lite
• WebStar/MacHTTP Indexer
• WebStat
5. HTML in seven lessons
• Basic HTML tags
• Creating hypertext links
• Logical tags
• Stylistic tags
• List tags
• Incorporating graphics with the image tag
6. Macintosh-based HTML editors
• Alpha
• Arachnid
• BBEdit HTML extensions
• BBEdit HTML Tools
• High Tea
• HTML Editor for the Macintosh
• HTML Pro
• HTML SuperText
• HTML Tag Macros
• HTML Web Weaver
• HTML-HyperEditor
• HTML.edit
• HTMLWriter
• Simple HTML Editor (SHE)
• Site Writer Pro
• Webtor
7. HTML Converters and Utilities
• ColorHEX
• Colour HeXer
• FORMSGENERATOR
• Hotlist2HTML
• HTML Grinder
• HTML Markdown
• HTML Markup
• HTML Sketcher
• HTML Special Effects
• HTML TableTool
• HTML+ XTND Translator
• rtftohtml
• WebDoor Publisher
• XTND HTML Translator
8. Graphic Utilities
• clip2gif
• FlattenMooV
• Transparency
9. 3 Essential qualities of information systems
• Readability
• Browsability
• Searchability
10. Searching Your Server
• Searching Your Server
• AppleSearch
• TR-WWW
11. WWW Scripting
• "Hello, World!"
• Making your scripts HTTP-friendly
• Global variables in .script scripts
• Adding rudimentary input to your .script files
• Getting input via <ISINDEX>
• But don't use .script files
• Running scripts via AppleEvents
• Global variables and ISINDEX revisited
• Trapping and handling errors
• Overriding the "Stay Open" option
• Using FORMs to get input
• Decoding and reading the input in your scripts
12. OSAX for WWW scripting
• ACME Script Widgets
• Decode URL
• Encode URL
• Parse CGI OSAX
• Script Tools
• TCP/IP Scripting Addition
13. Image Mapping
• Hyper Mapedit
• WebMap
• Imagemap-pl
• Mac-ImageMap
• MapServe
14. The end... of the beginning

Appendices

• Appendix A: Special characters and entities
• Appendix B: Running servers without the Internet
• Appendix C: Selected readings
• Appendix D: Software Index
• Appendix E: Macintosh-related Internet resources

Eric last edited this page on September 26, 1995. Please feel free to send comments.