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Summary: Should be titled direct marketing for the internet....
Review: Personally, I thought I was buying a book about setting up a web site. This book gives you endless "steps" on how-to get someone else to setup your site. It also provides a sickening amount of URLS.... Sorry, I see everyone else simply LOVED this book, but I must have missed it. If you want internet marketing it's a maybe. If you are a web developer, certainly NOT. Sorry Mr. Kent, but I also got the feeling you encourage spam.... enough said! Read "Web Pages that Suck" for a real web book.
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Summary: Should be titled direct marketing for the internet....
Review: Personally, I thought I was buying a book about setting up a web site. This book gives you endless "steps" on how-to get someone else to setup your site. It also provides a sickening amount of URLS.... Sorry, I see everyone else simply LOVED this book, but I must have missed it. If you want internet marketing it's a maybe. If you are a web developer, certainly NOT. Sorry Mr. Kent, but I also got the feeling you encourage spam.... enough said! Read "Web Pages that Suck" for a real web book.
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Summary: One of my favorite computer book writers
Review: Peter Kent does it again! He's a great writer and so it's not surprising that once again he's made sense of a hot yet complicated topic. Thanks Peter!
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Summary: Get to the point
Review: Poor Richard's Web Site by Peter Kant appears in its second edition to provide a painless, inexpensive set of guidelines for setting up a web site. From the nine options on where to put a site to locating a web hosting company, creating pages without learning HTML and taking orders online and testing the site, this is packed with jargon-free advice and should be a mainstay for any potential web participant.
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Summary: A truly terrific, "user friendly" resource guide.
Review: Poor Richard's Web Site by Peter Kant appears in its second edition to provide a painless, inexpensive set of guidelines for setting up a web site. From the nine options on where to put a site to locating a web hosting company, creating pages without learning HTML and taking orders online and testing the site, this is packed with jargon-free advice and should be a mainstay for any potential web participant.
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Summary: An excellent, practical guide to web site development
Review: Poor Richard's Web Site is a practical guide for any one who wants a straight forward approach to getting a private or commercial website up and running quickly. Although I am a fairly experience systems integration professional, I found myself somewhat intimidated by the latest internet technology. Fortunately, Peter Kent demystifies the terminology and technology so that you can focus on the truly important elements of your website (namely content).Note that this is not a programming book. You will still have to purchase books on the specific technologies that you wish to use. It is a primer on how to run a website development project. The book consists of four major sections. "Part I - Preparation" walks through the basics of deciding how to obtain a website (web hosting, domain registration). "Part II - Creation" addresses website design, HTML, site authoring, on line ordering and email integration. "Part III - Promotion" deals with how to effectively roll out your site once it is up. The final section is composed of the appendixes which contain a number of helpful checklists. Overall I think that most people will find the straightforward language and real world examples to be very helpful in planning the development of a website.
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Summary: An excellent, practical guide to web site development
Review: Poor Richard's Web Site is a practical guide for any one who wants a straight forward approach to getting a private or commercial website up and running quickly. Although I am a fairly experience systems integration professional, I found myself somewhat intimidated by the latest internet technology. Fortunately, Peter Kent demystifies the terminology and technology so that you can focus on the truly important elements of your website (namely content). Note that this is not a programming book. You will still have to purchase books on the specific technologies that you wish to use. It is a primer on how to run a website development project. The book consists of four major sections. "Part I - Preparation" walks through the basics of deciding how to obtain a website (web hosting, domain registration). "Part II - Creation" addresses website design, HTML, site authoring, on line ordering and email integration. "Part III - Promotion" deals with how to effectively roll out your site once it is up. The final section is composed of the appendixes which contain a number of helpful checklists. Overall I think that most people will find the straightforward language and real world examples to be very helpful in planning the development of a website.
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Summary: An outstanding book.
Review: Poor Richard's Web Site: Geek-Free, Commonsense Advice onBuilding a Low-Cost Web Site (Second Edition) is a book so super thatyou may start asking yourself if Peter Kent is related to Clark. What makes this book outstanding is the superabundance of essential details. Kent tells you everything you need to know and do, shows you what the options are, then gives you his right-on-target advice. The second edition of the book has been thoroughly updated, and it's even eight dollars less expensive than the first. The book is divided into three sections: Preparation, Creation, and Promotion. The Preparation section tells you how you can benefit from a Web site, how to begin, where to put your site, how to choose a web host, and all about domain names. Chapter 4 (about how to choose a web host) lists and explains 43 services that hosting company might provide, thus giving you a foolproof method for comparing what each company can do. The Creation section is another cornucopia of rich ideas. Here you'll learn how to design your site, select an HTML authoring tool, how to add interaction, take orders online, and work with email. Part III, Promotion, is a complete seminar about the subject. You might take a course at a conference for hundreds of dollars and not get half the ideas you'll find right here at your fingertips. The book's Appendix contains two checklists for two of your most important jobs: finding a web host and promoting your site. And the book is filled throughout with almost 800 useful links to lead you to all kinds of important resources. You will find that setting up and running a successful Web site takes a lot of work. But with Kent's book, which tells you precisely what you need to do and how to do it most efficiently, your job will be much easier and enjoyable as well. As the saying goes: If you plan to buy only one book on the subject of making your own Web site, this book is unmistakably the one. Michael Pastore, Reviewer
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Summary: Finally! I got the answers I was looking for.
Review: Putting together a form for my web page, I was stopped by cgi scripts, which claim to be easy to use but aren't. I found this book, which has a step by step explanation that really helped! Most other books are written for programmers and are too advanced, or written for novices and are too basic. This one is just right!
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Summary: Simply the best guide to setting up a web site. Period.
Review: This book gives you what you need to set up a proper web site without extraneous gobblydegook or presumptuous lingo. Kent discusses all available techniques for setting up a site and them dissects each approach so you can make your own decision. And the links! He provides tons of on-line reference tools to help you work in the REAL WORLD. Both technical and non-technical readers will benefit from having this book on their shelves.
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