The rules in High Performance Web Sites explain how you can optimize the performance of the Ajax, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, and images that you’ve already built into your site — adjustments that are critical for any rich web application. Other sources of information pay a lot of attention to tuning web servers, databases, and hardware, but the bulk of display time is taken up on the browser side and by the communication between server and browser.

High Performance Web Sites covers every aspect of that process. Each performance rule is supported by specific examples, and code snippets are available on the book’s companion web site.

The rules include how to:

• Make Fewer HTTP Requests
• Use a Content Delivery Network
• Add an Expires Header Gzip Components
• Put Stylesheets at the Top
• Put Scripts at the Bottom
• Avoid CSS Expressions
• Make JavaScript and CSS External
• Reduce DNS Lookups
• Minify JavaScript
• Avoid Redirects
• Remove Duplicates Scripts
• Configure ETags
• Make Ajax Cacheable

If you’re building pages for high traffic destinations and want to optimize the experience of users visiting your site, this book is indispensable. “If everyone would implement just 20% of Steve’s guidelines, the Web would be a dramatically better place.

Between this book and Steve’s YSlow extension, there’s really no excuse for having a sluggish web site anymore.” -Joe Hewitt, Developer of Firebug debugger and Mozilla’s DOM Inspector “Steve Souders has done a fantastic job of distilling a massive, semi-arcane art down to a set of concise, actionable, pragmatic engineering steps that will change the world of web performance.” -Eric Lawrence, Developer of the Fiddler Web Debugger, Microsoft Corporation

The Cyberspace Handbook explores how cyberspace has been constructed, how it is used and extends into areas as different as providing us immediate news or immersive games and virtual reality, the challenges raised by computer and communications technologies for areas such as copyright and cybercrime, as well as key skills in employing the Internet for research or writing and designing for the Web.

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Web Data Management proposes a data model called WHOM (Warehouse Object Model) to represent HTML and XML documents in the warehouse. It defines a set of web algebraic operators for building new web tables by extracting relevant data from the Web, as well as generating new tables from existing ones. These algebraic operators are used for change detection.

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HackNotes Web Security Portable Reference describes the hacks and vulnerabilities threatening today’s Web applications, then provides the defenses necessary to counteract and destroy threats of all manner. Determine whether a vulnerability exists, then attack and overcome application weaknesses through a series of tested and trusted anti-hacking methods, bullet-proof best practices, and code-level techniques. Use the unique Reference Center in the middle of the book to access security commands, input validation checklists, tables for alternate encoding schemes, online resources, SQL injection hints, application testing methodologies, and more. Find critical information in seconds with special 32-page Reference Center insert Configure a secure Web server and develop secure Web applications Learn and understand application scouring and penetration methodologies Protect application data from unauthorized access Create hardened policies, applications, and services Track evidence of application attacks in Web server log files Block platform and Web application vulnerabilities Learn the tools available to handle session hijacking, SQL injection, and more Eliminate common programming pitfalls in ASP, PHP, Java, and Perl Identify Web-based attacks with thorough log analysis

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Few people think of an Internet domain name like .us or .in as anything other than an address–when, in fact, it often serves as a roadmap to national identities and priorities. Addressing the World looks behind eleven of the 240 global domain names, from the United States and Australia to Moldova and East Timor. Stories and first-person accounts by activists, journalists, Internet administrators, lawyers, and academics examine the sociological, historical, political, and technological development of Internet country code top-level domains (ccTLDs).

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Secrets of Videoblogging is the perfect introduction to the art of the videoblog, or vlog, whatever your subject. Filled with both technical and creative tips, this fun, fast, full-color guide provides everything you need to get started
vlogging.

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With Web Design For Dummies, you will be able to design your own Web site like a pro.
Web design requires many programs to make a Website attractive and fun, including:

• Using Web editors like Dreamweaver
• Image editing tools like Photoshop elements
• Drawing utensils like Illustrator
• Background markup and scripting languages like HTML and CSS

This fun guide covers all of the topics that every aspiring Web designer should know. This book offers advice on:

• Designing for your audience
• Building a solid framework for easy navigation
• Creating appealing graphics that work with the site
• Choosing the proper type and colors
• Tweaking the HTML to make everything work correctly
• Applying next-step technologies including JavaScript
• Parlaying your skills into paid work

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Building ASP.NET Server Controls will be both a tutorial and a reference for the serious ASP.NET developer who understands the benefits of object-oriented development and wants to apply those principles to ASP.NET and server control development. It is important to note that this book is the most up-to-date book available. It covers the important new area of mobile server control development to support mobile phone web application development as well as using the latest version of Visual Studio .NET (2003) and the .NET Framework v1.1.

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Whether yours is a one-person business or a multi-million dollar corporation, here’s help giving spammers and spies the bum’s rush. Two veterans of the spam wars help you analyze your situation, choose the right solutions, set up and maintain them, and even show the bean-counters why such defenses are essential.

Discover how to:

• Understand how spammers get addresses
• Calculate the cost of spam and spyware
• Re-engineer your business processes
• Select spam and spyware filters
• Manage implementation and maintenance

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Web Systems Design and Online Consumer Behavior contains theoretical and empirical research from expert scholars in a number of areas including communications, psychology, marketing and advertising, and information systems. This book provides an integrated look at the subject area as described above to further our understanding of the linkage among various disciplines inherently connected with one another in electronic commerce.

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Eight minibooks cover ASP.NET basics, Web controls, using HTML and ASP, C#, Visual Basic, database programming, using the .NET Framework, and advanced ASP.NET 2 (including themes, custom server controls, and Web parts)