Essentials consist of hands-on tutorials with a project orientation designed to give students a thorough knowledge of software applications in 8-12 contact hours. The end-of-chapter exercises combine skill assessment and application practice.

This thorough tutorial/reference explains how to use and customize the Web browser Internet Explorer for any intended use. It covers Web page design and construction using Microsoft's additional features as well as use of the other Microsoft Internet products such as FrontPage, IIS, VBScript, ActiveX, JScript, and more.

This beginner's guide provides students with a complete look at the Web using Internet Explorer 4.0. The easy-to-follow, highly visual approach introduces helpful tips and resources related to Internet usage while incorporating the new and enhanced features of the latest version of Microsoft's Internet browser (I. E. 4.0).

The Web professional's guide to creating Active Server Pages (ASP) with the world's #1 scripting language: JavaScript. Step-by-step walkthroughs of key applications: database integration, automated email replies, and much more. See the code at work on a free Web-based companion site -- and discover bonus projects, solutions, and downloadable code! Endorsed by WOW (The World Organization of Web Masters)! This concise, practical, example-rich guide teaches Web developers exactly what they need to know to achieve high-quality results with Microsoft's Active Server Pages and JavaScript -- immediately. Endorsed by the World Organization of Webmasters, Essential ASP for Web Professionals offers no-nonsense, practical coverage designed around real-world examples you can see working on a live sample site. Leading Web developer Elijah Lovejoy teaches Web developers exactly what they need to get up-and-running fast -- from the basics of embedding ASP code in HTML pages to full-blown application development. Essential ASP for Web Professionals walks you through these and other real-world examples: shopping carts, database applications, sending email from Web pages, creating guest books, and embedding variable information such as dates in Web pages. Every chapter includes practical overviews of relevant ASP and JavaScript features, reinforcing all that's been learned. Essential ASP for Web Professionals comes with a free web site that includes additional projects and solutions, downloadable code, images, additional in-depth explanations, and other valuable resources. Elijah Lovejoy has over six years experience developing Internet and database applications; his clients have included the American Film Institute and the Environmental Protection Agency. He is currently Chief Technology Officer for Prepay.com.

For system administrators, ensuring that all Windows servers are performing optimally is a tall order. The larger the enterprise, the greater the chance for irritating, time-consuming configuration problems. Sometimes, you can determine the root cause of the problem yourself-but that's only if you're lucky. With Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM), the diagnosis is done for you. MOM monitors server operations and automatically notifies you of problems by sending an immediate alert to your console, email address, or pager. To help you better understand how MOM works, O'Reilly presents Essential Microsoft Operations Manager. The goal of this comprehensive tutorial is to give first-time MOM administrators a solid foundation for planning, implementing, and administering MOM 2005. Author Chris Fox, a renowned MOM expert, offers the type of practical, real-world advice that you need to improve the performance of your IT infrastructure. After taking you through the entire process of setting up MOM on the network, the book moves on to more advanced administration issues. It carefully instructs you how to program and automate MOM and the agents that reside on the servers themselves. You'll also learn how to manage the scripts that determine which server agents are relevant to report. By capturing system data, intelligently analyzing it, and then notifying you with a suggested course of action, MOM makes extinguishing fires a breeze. And now, thanks toEssential Microsoft Operations Manager, learning how to use MOM is a breeze, too.

Explains what Weblogs are and the technology behind them, covering such topics as the components of a blog and a blog post, desktop blogging, using templates to customize blogs, and syndicating stories with RSS.

Essential Computer Security provides the vast home user and small office computer market with the information they must know in order to understand the risks of computing on the Internet and what they can do to protect themselves.Tony Bradley is the Guide for the About.com site for Internet Network Security. In his role managing the content for a site that has over 600,000 page views per month and a weekly newsletter with 25,000 subscribers, Tony has learned how to talk to people, everyday people, about computer security. Intended for the security illiterate, Essential Computer Security is a source of jargon-less advice everyone needs to operate their computer securely.* Written in easy to understand non-technical language that novices can comprehend* Provides detailed coverage of the essential security subjects that everyone needs to know * Covers just enough information to educate without being overwhelming

Health and social care services are responsible for the delivery of skilled and high-quality care to their patients and clients. Nowhere are these objectives more important than in the fields of nursing, midwifery, radiography, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, health promotion, and social work. And one important quality standard in health care is evidence-based information and best practice. The Internet is a subject on which many people are, let’s face it, blissful innocents. I urge you to take the Internet seriously and to discover what is most relevant and useful for your practice – The Essential Guide to the Internet for Health Professionals is a practical means towards that end. The second edition contains new information to help you find your way around the Internet and updates the original book with more detail on the clear framework of the original edition. It’s a how-to book to get you going and save you time – a guide to those parts of cyberspace that provide particularly relevant evidence.