Foundation Mac OS X Web Development

By Phil Sherry

Mac users are renowned for being creative people and for being at the forefront of innovative design. If you’re looking for an inclusive guide to web development on the Mac platform, then this is the book for you.

Whether you’re new to Mac OS X, just starting out in web development, or new to developing dynamic sites on the Mac platform, Foundation Mac OS X Web Development will have you creating web pages and hosting them on your Mac in no time.

Learn how to add dynamic content to pages using Perl and PHP, and how to drive your site content using the popular free database MySQL. As a Mac OS X user you already have Apache, the powerful UNIX-based web server, at your fingertips and you’ll become skilled at its configuration and maintenance elements. Using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 and a bit of hand-coding, you’ll also learn how to ensure your site looks good on the Windows platform, as well as in older browsers.

Table of contents

Foreword by Brendan Dawes
1. Introduction to Mac OS X Panther: The New Features
2. Mac Graphics and Design Issues
3. Developing Static Websites
4. Browser Issues
5. Dynamic Web Page Development
6. Mac UNIX Essentials
7. Apache Modules
8. Databases
9. Server-Side Language Environments
10. Multimedia

This book is part of friends of ED's 'Foundation' series

The Foundation series is perfect for beginners to a technology, because it doesn't assume any previous knowledge. Each book in the series takes you step by step through your chosen technology, starting with the absolute fundamentals and working through all aspects of the technology, ultimately providing you with a firm grasp of the basics that will enable you to create your own applications or web sites. You will learn by following complete examples at every stage of your journey, often by extended case studies that you will build upon throughout the book. The Foundation series will give you the broad and solid base you need in order to progress to a higher level of expertise.