Further Internet Reading

• World Wide Web
• Security
• Basic Internet Technology

Getting started with Web technology may seem very difficult at first.  As it turns out - and especially with Websydian in your tool-box! - it isn't as hard as you might expect.  Below is a list of some of the book that we at Soft Design have found to be helpful in our work with Web Applications.  You can use it as a starting point for your exploration.

World Wide Web

• Rick Darnell et al.: "HTML 4 Unleashed".  Sams.net Publishing, 1997.

  Excellent book on HTML publishing!  We use it all the time at Soft Design, for all our Web Application projects.  You need something like this if you are going to design the layout of your Web Application in-house.  In-depth coverage of basic HTML, Tables, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Frames, Layers, Dynamic HTML, Internationalization, and much more.  Endorsed by IWA - The International Web Masters Organization.

• Richard Wagner et al.: "JavaScript Unleashed".  Sams.net Publishing, 1997.

  Another excellent book.  You can develop fine Web Applications without JavaScript whatsoever, but we have found that we - once we had developed a good understanding of straightforward HTML - often use JavaScript to spice up the Web Application with a bit of JavaScript, as that can make a big difference in the 'feel' of the application.

• Michele Petrovski: "Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0 Sourcebook".   John Wiley & Sons, 1998.
• Richard Cravens: "Official Netscape Enterprise Server 3 Book".   Ventana, 1997.

Security

• Simson Garfinkel & Gene Spafford: "Web Security & Commerce".  O'Reilly & Associates, 1997.

  Great introduction to the general issues of Web Security, with a broad outlook and clearly defined concepts.  Clear presentation of the most important threats to security when you deploy Web Applications on the Internet.  Highly recommended.

• Deborah Russell & G.T. Gangemi: "Computer Security Basics".   O'Reilly & Associates, 1991.
• Simson Garfinkel & Gene Spafford: "Practical UNIX & Internet Security".  O'Reilly & Associates, 1996.
• D. Brent Chapman & Elizabeth D. Zwicky: "Building Internet Firewalls".   O'Reilly & Associates, 1995.
• Bruce Schneier: Applied Cryptography, 2nd Ed.  John Wiley & Sons, 1996.

Basic Internet Technology

All these books are very technical.  You probably won't need them unless you want to know absolutely everything there is to know about Web and Internet technology at the most detailed, technical level.

• W. Richard Stevens: TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. I-III.  Addison-Wesley, 1994.

  Perhaps the authoritative documentation of the TCP/IP protocol family. 2000+ pages, including a complete listing of a working implementation of TCP/IP.

• Douglas Comer: Internetworking with TCP/IP, Vol. I-III, 3rd Ed. Prentice Hall, 1995.

  Also a very good book on TCP/IP, all-time best-seller on the Internet.   You don't need this and Stevens' "TCP/IP Illustrated", though, they cover much of the same ground.  Used in many university C.S. courses. 

• W. Richard Stevens: UNIX Network Programming.  Prentice Hall, 1990.

  Don't let the UNIX part of the title fool you.  Stevens is an excellent writer, and this is the first book of his on the subject.  Excellent exposition of the central themes in low-level network programming, viewed from a UNIX perspective.

• Ralph Davis: Win32 Network Programming.  Addison-Wesley, 1996.