Elizabeth Castro

Takes an easy, visual approach to teaching Perl and CGI scripting, using pictures to guide you through the syntax and show you what to do. Works like a reference book—you look up what you need and then get straight to work. No long-winded passages—concise, straightforward commentary explains what you need to know. Companion Web site at www.peachpit.com/vqs/perlcgi gives you all the sample code from the book, updates, and more.

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Writing in a journal is all well and good, but when you're ready to share your musings with the world (and you think the world is ready to receive them!), a "blog" is the way to go. As the latest phenomenon to grow out of the Web, the blog (or "Web log") is a diary with a difference: Rather than speaking to yourself, you're speaking to the world -- and, best of all, the world can talk back! Here to get you started is a low-priced guide to the leading free blog software: Google's Blogger. Using large color illustrations and a minimum of verbiage, this compact, tightly focused guide from best-selling author Elizabeth Castro takes you through each step of the blogging process -- from acquainting you with the interface to setting up your blog, creating your profile, posting email, adding pictures and audio, and using BlogThis to post your blog from anywhere on the Web.

Need to learn HTML fast? This best-selling reference's visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with HTML in no time. In this completely updated edition of our best-selling guide to HTML, Web expert and best-selling author Elizabeth Castro uses crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you to all of today's HTML and XHTML essentials. You'll learn how to design, structure, and format your Web site. You'll create and use images, links, styles, lists, tables, frames, and forms, and you'll add sound and movies to your site. Finally, you will test and debug your site, and publish it to the Web. Along the way, you'll find extensive coverage of CSS techniques, current browsers (Opera, Safari, Firefox), creating pages for the mobile Web, and more. Visual QuickStart Guide--the quick and easy way to learn! Easy visual approach uses pictures to guide you through HTML and show you what to do. Concise steps and explanations get you up and running in no time. Page for page, the best content and value around. Companion Web site at www.cookwood.com/html offers examples, a lively question-and-answer area, updates, and more.