July 1998
Raising The Roof On Web Design
Raising The Roof On Web Design
By Susan Kuchinskas
Explore the inner workings of several commercial sites. Susan uncovers
what's happening behind the scenes, and it's not coded in HTML.
Award-Winning Web Shops
By Mary Jo Fahey
Who are the industry's pioneer Web shops? What are they calling themselves?
And what are their stories? Mary Jo talks to the best and brightest.
DirectAnimation Programming
By Rick Dobson
DirectAnimation lets you create animations and multimedia presentations
on the Web. Rick teaches you to zoom, rotate, and interactively change page objects.
C O L U M N S :
Webmaster's Domain
Tired of unwelcome email solicitations? Join the crew! Lincoln D. Stein shows you some simple procmail and sendmail filters, and other ways to fight spam.
Visual Designer
At last, Adobe unveils a Web-savvy graphics tool, developed in-house
by its own top engineers. Lynda Weinman serves up a preview of ImageReady.
Database Developer
Is "database API standard" a contradiction of terms? Vendors continue
to upgrade server architectures to compete
as OLTP, OLCP, and OLAP platforms. Ken North spells it all out.
Programming with Perl
Bad links got you down? Randal L. Schwartz updates and automates his popular link checker with parallel user agents.
Java@Work
In his premiere column, Al Williams demonstrates how to build a no-fuss user-interface widget and a Burma Shave sign, all in Java Studio.
Beyond HTML
SGML lite? HTML on steroids? What is XML, why is it interesting, and
where did it come from? Michael Floyd tells all in
his column's debut.
D E P A R T M E N T S :
Script Junkie
Need to greet new visitors with fresh content without repeating the
message to return visitors? Bart Marable and Raymond Simmons
have a solution that demonstrates how to use cookies appropriately.
Lab Note
Dreamweaver has become one of the most popular tools for Web development
to date. Sue Wilcox takes us on a tour of the product, while offering some insight from the product developers at Macromedia.
The Home Page
Editor-in-Chief, Bob Kaehms takes over "For the Love of the Game."
News & Notes
The 4th of July Comes Early.
The Last Page
Editorial Director Dale Dougherty talks about "Hacks and Home-Page Improvements."
