Web Enable Your Small Business in A Weekend

• Strategies for building a powerful, functional Web site
• Information on how to maintain and update Web content
• Tips and techniques for getting the most out of FrontPage and Access
• Methods for capturing customer information and using it in a powerful database

What's on the CD-ROM:

• Sample book files, including a sample Web site built using concepts in the book
• Paint Shop Pro^TM 6
• Cool Edit 2000
• WinZip®
• GifArt^TM and My Creations clip art collections, and 4004 Background Images and Sounds to jazz up your site

• Introduction
• Friday Evening: What E-Commerce Means to Your Small Business
• E-Commerce Considerations
• Living on Web Time
• Enabling Data Using HTML
• Considering Web Site Design Essentials
• Knowing What You Want versus What You Need
• Gathering and Organizing Information
• Building a Web Site Framework
• Developing a Process Plan
• Using the Tools of the Track: FrontPage and Access
• Using FrontPage
• Using Access
• Session in Review
• Saturday Morning: Working with FrontPage
• Locating Personal Web Server on Your Computer
• Installing Personal Web Server
• Verifying the PWS Installation
• Checking the Rest of Your Components
• Disabling the Windows Automatic Dial-Up Connection
• Take a Break!
• Exploring FrontPage 2000
• Creating Your First Web Page
• Placing and Formatting Text
• Inserting Graphics
• Working with FrontPage Components
• Saving Your Web Pages
• Session In Review
• Saturday Afternoon: Advanced FrontPage Functionality
• Building a FrontPage Web
• Naming a FrontPage Web
• Adding New Pages to Your Web
• Understanding Where FrontPage Webs are Stored on Your Computer
• Using a Web Browser to Access Pages in Your Web
• Working with FrontPage Wizards and Themes
• Using the Corporate Presence Wizard
• Customizing Webs Created Using Wizards
• Adding Tables to Organize Your Information
• Formatting Tables
• Adding Text and Graphics to Your Tables
• Take a Break!
• Working with Frames
• Creating and Saving a Frames Page
• Saving Frames Pages
• Understanding Frames Page Mechanics
• Customizing Frame Properties with FrontPage
• Working with Forms In Your Web Pages
• Form Element: One-Line Text Box
• Form Element: Scrolling Text Box
• Form Element: Check Box
• Form Element: Radio Button
• Form Element: Drop-Down Menu
• Form Element: The Push Button
• Adding Hyperlinks
• Adding Text Hyperlinks to Your Pages
• Testing Hyperlinks in a Browser
• Adding Graphical Hyperlinks to Your Pages
• Session in Review
• Saturday Evening: Dynamic Webs: Processing Forms and Integrating Databases
• What's So Dynamic about Dynamic Webs?
• Active Server Pages 101
• Getting Your Web Ready for ASP
• Processing Forms
• Creating a Form-Processing Web Page
• Take a Break!
• The Background of Dynamic Webs
• Using a Database
• Organizing Your Business Process Flow
• Preparing Your Access Database for the Web
• Establishing a Data Source Name (DSN)
• Creating Your First Database-Driven Web Page
• Adding a Search Form
• Take a Break!
• Inserting Information: Advanced Database Integration
• Inserting Information into a Database
• Session in Review
• Sunday Morning: Adding FrontPage Spice: Form Validation, DHTML, and E-Mail
• Validating Forms
• Determining Required Form Fields
• Validating Other Form Elements
• Take a Break!
• Integrating E-Mail with FrontPage Webs
• Working with DHTML Effects
• Adding a Search Feature to Your Web Site
• Session in Review
• Sunday Afternoon: Examining a Web-Enabled Small Business Example: BestPop
• CD Shop
• History of BestPop CD Shop
• Investigating the Web Construction Options
• Considering the Web Design Firm Suggestions
• Building a Web Site on Their Own
• Overview of the BestPop Web Site
• Looking at the BestPop Home Page Design
• Examining the BestPop Database
• Analyzing the location.htm Page
• Analyzing the catalog_search.asp and search_results.asp Pages
• Take a Break!
• Analyzing the guestbook.asp and guestbook_confirm.htm Pages
• Working with the guestbook.asp Page
• Understanding the guestbook_confirm.htm Page
• Analyzing the maillng_list.asp and mailing_confirm.htm Pages
• Analyzing the order.asp Page
• Analyzing the place_order.asp Page
• Analyzing the insert_order.asp Page
• Analyzing the order_status.htm and order_status_results.asp Pages
• Wrapping up with the BestPop Web Site
• Session in Review
• Sunday Evening: Publishing Your Web
• Registering a Name for Your Web Site
• Using Register.com to Find a Domain Name
• Publishing Your Web with the FrontPage Server Extensions
• Editing Pages on the Web Server
• Selectively Publishing Web Pages
• Publishing Your Web without the FrontPage Server Extensions
• Publishing Your Web Using FrontPage
• Publishing Your Web Using the Windows 98 Web Publishing Wizard
• Take a Break!
• Promoting Your Small Business Web Site
• Performing Monetary Transactions on the Web
• Weekend Wrap-Up
• Appendix A: Finding a Web Hosting Service
• A Sample Listing of Web Hosting Providers
• Appendix B: Access Essentials
• Creating a Database
• Creating Tables in Design View
• Entering Data into a Table Using the Datasheet View
• Modifying a Table that Contains Data
• Inserting a New Field into an Existing Table
• Deleting a Field from an Existing Table
• Modifying a Field Data Type
• Using the Access Simple Query Wizard
• Appendix C: What's On the CD-ROM?
• Running the CD
• Windows 95/98/NT4/2000/Me
• The Prima License
• The Prima User Interface
• Resizing and Closing the User Interface
• Using the Left Panel
• Using the Right Panel
• Command Buttons
• Pop-Up Menu Options
• The Software
• Glossary
• Index