Unraveling the Web

Berkeley, CA--With traffic on the World Wide Web doubling every four
months, triple the overall growth rate of the Internet, this on-ramp to
the Information Superhighway is fast becoming the largest interactive
multimedia storehouse in the world. Users can access up-to-the minute
technical and statistical data on everything from artificial intelligence
to zebra husbandry. They can visit art galleries and science labs, peruse
Letterman's Top Ten and the FBI's most wanted, and much more.

Unlike the relatively complicated Internet, the Web is almost as simple to
use as the telephone because of its intuitive point-and-click interface.
Nevertheless, a good guide to the ways of the Web is still essential. And
that's why Peachpit Press has published Web Head, a book that helps
readers explore the frontiers of this rapidly evolving hypermedia network
at the same time that it teaches them how to carve out a piece of the
territory for themselves.

Web Head begins with a short history of the Web and explains its
relationship to the Internet. It also offers an in-depth look at the three
leading programs used to browse the Net--Netscape, MacMosaic, and MacWeb.
Throughout the book, there's plenty of practical information on such
topics as jacking into the Net, fine tuning one's system, external helper
applications, navigation techniques, writing Web pages, setting up a Web
server, and much more. Plus there is a glossary of Web terms, a list of
Internet service providers and a very handy glossary for HTML (Hyper Text
Markup Language). Like navigating the Web, one can read this book in a
free-form way, wandering from chapter to chapter in no particular order.

Author Mary Jane Mara has been writing for the Macintosh since its 1984
introduction, including articles for MacWEEK and Computer World and two
books on HyperCard with Jerry Daniels. She is currently the president and
chief systems analyst for Daniels & Mara, an Austin-based firm creating
enterprise-wide client/server solutions for firms like GE Aerospace, Apple
Computer, and the University of Texas.

Web Head
by Mary Jane Mara
Price: $24.95
Size: 272 pages, 7" x 9"
ISBN: 1-50009-176-4
Publication date: 7/95

Peachpit Press
2414 Sixth St, Berkeley, CA 94710
800-283-9444,  510-548-4393,  fax 510-548-5991
URL: http://www.peachpit.com
 
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