Publisher's Synopsis
This guide describes the necessary steps for providing information via the Internet and the World Wide Web, giving readers the tools to put up a server quickly and easily. Topics covered range from set-up to content to security issues.;Chapters cover: the information revolution, advantages of using the Internet rather than other media, the Net structure and serving with UNIX; explaining the World Wide Web, hypertext media, URLs, servers and browsers; setting up NCSA httpd, configuations, setting up CERN httpd and proxy/caching; Internet security, firewalls and what to do if your security has been broken; providing content - rtftohtml, what RTF is and how to use it; checking your work, Chimera and/or tkwww, lynx, mime-typing, file types and compression; images, sound, movies and animation - gif vs. jpeg, resolution, colour, transparency, imagemaps, sources for art, au, wav, mpeg2, speed, rate, frequency, presention, Quicktime, ImageMagick and video capture.
