Table of Contents
June 1996
The Home Page
by Michael Floyd
MAIL.COM
by YOU
LAB NOTES
Visual Web Design with FrontPage
by Chris Baron and Bob Weil
FrontPage, Microsof's visual Web design and development system for Windows, bills itself as the Web publishing without programming tool. Chris and Bob put FrontPage through its paces while pointing out some of its limitations.
INSITE
Virtual Vegas
by Joan Van Tassel
When it comes to pushing the envelope of Web technology, the designers of Virtual Vegas are on the bleeding edge. But before it was a Web site, Virtual Vegas lived on CD-ROM. Joan looks at how this entertainment software made the transition to the Web.
DEPARTMENTS
News & Notes
The Webmaster's Domain
by Lincoln Stein
Lincoln explores the issues of commercial versus noncommercial servers, and which operating systems they should run on.
Doing Justice to the Web
by Catherine Kirkman
Catherine discusses how trademark law protects trademark holders from this potential get-rich-quick scheme.
HTML Coding
by Laura Lemay
Designing for the lowest common denominator is boring. Laura presents techniques that allow you to use Java scripts, frames, and tables.
Dynamic Digital Design
by Craig Kanarick
Craig presents his list of "killer" attributes every Web site should consider, along with some design features that will your send your site vistors running.
Programming with Perl
by Randal L. Schwartz
This month, Randal shows how to write a client program that builds up a large, comprehensive document from a query that's being sent bits and pieces at a time.
Java Alley
by John Caron
Sifting through hype, John cuts to the chase and reports on the status of the Java language, describing Sun's Java Development Kit and presenting a few Java tricks along the way.
FEATURES
Porting Windows Applications to Java: Part I
by Andrew Wilson
Java's similarity with C and C++ make it possible to port application code into applets. However, user-interface code does not port easily. In the first installment of this two-part article, Andrew shows how you can strip the resources from a Windows application and write them into Java classes. He also describes a tool to automate the process.
Methods for Motion: Revisiting Animation
on Web Pages
by Ray Valdes
While animation can add life to a dull Web page, it also adds overhead. Ray looks at various methods for adding movement to your home page and describes a relatively new technique known as "multi-image GIFs" or "GIF89a animation".
Custom Web Statistics in Perl
by Kamran Husain
While there are a number of free and commercial tools to recover and interpret transaction-log files, they may not always perform the analysis you need. Kamran shows how you can extend these tools with Perl.
Intranet Development with VisualWave
by Joseph P. Hughes
Joe describes how VisualWave allows Smalltalk developers to create live, two-way applications called "Weblications," which enable users to interact with data in the same manner as in standalone applications.
Interactive Forms in HTML
by Andrew Davison
Andrew discusses the forms mechanism in HTML and shows how you can put it to work. He also discusses techniques for debugging form applications and shows how to log form usage.
The Last Page
by Michael Swaine
