Microsoft Site Server 3.0 Bible

by Brad Harris

Published 17 September 1998
This handbook covers all the major features of Site Server 3.0. It includes discussion of: publishing information on a site; setting up search facilities on a site; using personalization and membership features on a site; pushing information to customers/visitors; keeping visitors informed of updates and additions to a site; tracking usage of a site and modifying it accordingly; setting up and managing an online store; and creating user-specific click-through advertisement on a site. In addition, the book offers a detailed developer's reference section explaining several of the most commonly-used technologies on the Web. Some of the highlights are: Active Server Pages reference; VBScript reference; Commerce Server Object reference; database reference; sample code; and Site Server 3 security issues. The book includes a CD-ROM with Web development tools and other shareware that is useful in site creation tasks, such as text editors, graphics utilities, sound editors, FTP clients and compression utilities.