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Summary: Good, but not great
Review: I am an information architect who was looking for a desktop reference to provide some technical support for my job. I own many books by O'Reilly and was anxious to recieve this book. However, in the section on servers there is NO REFERENCE to Microsoft IIS. How could they leave out one of the most popular server titles????
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Summary: Quick and Easy Reference
Review: I buy books on SQL, Linux, JSP, Java, PHP, Perl, and CGI development all the time. However, this is the one that is always on my desk, usually cracked open, and full of bookmarks and dog-ears. It was definitely my best book buy so far.
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Summary: Quick and Easy Reference
Review: I buy books on SQL, Linux, JSP, Java, PHP, Perl, and CGI development all the time. However, this is the one that is always on my desk, usually cracked open, and full of bookmarks and dog-ears. It was definitely my best book buy so far.
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Summary: Life easier, desktop manageable with 2003 THIRD edition
Review: I invested in a copy of the THIRD edition and am DELIGHTED. This reference does a good job of putting all the day-to-day needed information in one place. It saves me froming having to keep separate references on HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, CGI/Perl, HTTP, PHP, Apache functions, etc. right in my face.
I really applaud the compact and accessible way each chapter organizes and presents the details of syntax: they are clear yet take up much less space (1/5 the pages of books that are billed as references to each of the subjects included here) while giving you 95% of what a "comprehensive reference" might. I had been concerned that the information might be too compressed to be accessible, but in fact this volume is so much easier to scan through for an answer than many other reference styles. (Kudos to the book designers at O'Reilly!)Although a reference work, it is not only a listing of syntax (as helpful as those lists are). The authors have compiled pretty readable and thorough mini-backgrounds and basic principles for each of the enormous realms that they document here. These are providing some reminders for me as I am ramp up my knowledgebase and skills; plus there are hints that I have not yet seen elsewhere in weightier tomes (e.g., on performance). Readers may save themselves some money and desktop/bookshelf space + save some trees: this Nutshell is a vast storehouse that may enable you to forestall buying reference volumes for each of the topics covered here. Thanks to Spainhour & Eckstein for some careful work! Note to aspiring (novice) webmasters: this IS a REFERENCE book. That is not a bad thing. You'll still appreciate having it by your side because you're regularly going to have basic questions about formating ("how do I say this in CSS instead of HTML?"). However, as one young reviewer below discovered, to BECOME a webmaster (or master) is going to require some "Quickstart" books, some instruction in DESIGN, and STRATEGY, etc. Bon voyage! [ Further note from my earlier review: be sure you are NOT getting EARLIER edition. Complaints mentioned (below) in reviews of this book are rectified in the THIRD edition (ISBN 0596003579 ). It's probably a good idea to be watching as the reviews of that December 20002 volume to see how the work has changed.
In any event, with browsers and markup languages changing so fast almost everyone can be advised to jump to considering the most current edition -- even though (as of this writing) new copies of this 1999 second edition are still available. ]
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Summary: Just great.
Review: I like this book. I think it's very consice and detail enough at the same time. It's worth money and time. Enjoy.
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Summary: It's on my Desk
Review: I purchased this book about a week ago and have been very happy with it. I've managed to push several books into the dustier shelves because I've got this one at hand. It doesn't cover the deepest-darkest secrets of most topics, but most of the time I don't need that part - I just need a reminder of which attributes are part of which HTML tag or which methods are supported by a particular javascript object. For that, this book does a great job. Like one of the previous reviewers, I'd have appreciated a little more on Perl though, so I have to give this one only 4 stars - it's replaced two books, but I still have the third one on my desk.
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Summary: I like this book
Review: I read this book in Russian...It's The First and The Best of Book about Web-mastering in my country which I can recomended for All. It's truely a _desktop_ Book!
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Summary: Excellent as a Reference Book.
Review: I think the gentleman who gave this book 2 stars missed the point of the the entire In a Nutshell series. Most, if not all, of them are meant as a ready reference. They were never designed to teach. They were however designed so that you could say "Now what parameter can be used with that tag?" and find the answer. In this role, the Webmaster in a Nutshell, really shines, since you can leave it on your desk and not have a seperate reference for HTML and Javascript.
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Summary: The Best Desk Reference for the Web Professional
Review: If you already know the web and just need a book to look up particular things, because hey, no one can have it all memorized, everybody has to look something up once in a while, this book is for you. I have seen no other book that can pack that much information in such a small space and still be easy to look up just what you need, it has tables on everything from HTML to PHP3 and even the new XML, if you need to look up a tag in HTML because you cannot remember it's properties, just go look in the table, if you want to quickly learn a new topic, it can help you there too, organized in sections from HTML to Apache Server Administration, this book is the ultimate resource for the web professional.
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Summary: The Bomb
Review: Im a Senior Webmaster and this Webmaster in a Nutshell 2nd Edition is great. I keep in my draw by my computer, the new section on PHP is wonderful, this is a new and up and coming language, which I find much more easier to use then perl. Also this new edition has a wonderful XML section. All in all if your in the design and development biz you should have a copy by your side, it supplies you with great reference info in: HTML 4.0, CSS, XML, CGI/PERL, PHP, HTTP and Server Configuration. All you will ever need in one simple book. Not recommended for newbies! Might confuse the heck out of ya...
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