Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3090298 in Books
• Published on: 2000-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 600 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
Lots of people who set out to deploy Microsoft Site Server aren't really big on network and Web site administration. Rather, they just want to get a good-looking, reliable site up and running as quickly as possible. Beginning Site Server 3.0 is the perfect companion for such Web entrepreneurs. It's easy to follow but hardly dumbed down. The authors (consultants and programmers of various stripes) know that the purpose of Internet commerce is to please customers and make money, not fool with technology for its own sake.

A large part of this book takes the form of storyboard-style procedures, in which the authors explain (with many screen shots) the steps to follow in order to install Site Server and use its (rather powerful) site-construction wizards to build a business-to-consumer Web store. It's an effective presentation strategy, leaving little to the imagination during the critical set-up stages. The authors then make up for the limited flexibility of the storyboard approach by presenting detail-rich chapters on the databases that back up Site Server, as well as Pipelines, search facilities and various extensions. The programming information here is good but you'll probably want to supplement this book with one dedicated to Active Server Pages (ASP) if you have lots of custom work in mind. --David Wall, amazon.com

Topics covered: Site Server Commerce Edition 3.0, including its installation, relationship to Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 and 7.0 and design principles. Detailed coverage goes to the Commerce Site Foundation Wizard and Commerce Site Builder Wizard, the database infrastructure of Site Server sites, Pipelines, content searches and membership databases. On the programming site, there's interesting information on calling ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) from Active Server Pages (ASP).

Synopsis
It's not hard to see that in today's world, increased Internet access, user confidence, better payment systems, and rapidly improving web security are fueling the massive growth in what has become known as e-commerce. There are increasing opportunities in this fast changing world, and most businesses know that they need to get onto the Internet to stay in the game. Setting up an e-commerce site can be a daunting prospect, but there is help at hand - this book will show you the way. Site Server 3.0 from Microsoft can be viewed as an architectural platform for your Internet, intranet, extranet and e-commerce sites. But Site Server Version 3.0 can also be viewed as a set of applications, a suite of tools, utilities and services, that provide you with everything you need for content management, knowledge management, access control, web site traffic analysis and more. In addition, Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition enables you to build a transactional e-commerce web site, and provides you with all the tools you need for managing it. Microsoft Site Server 3.0 is a large product, but in this book, we're going to show you how to tame it, and how to unleash the power of Site Server Version 3. Commerce Edition. It will show you everything you need to get you started, including full guidelines for its installation and a comprehensive overview of the design considerations and technologies surrounding an e-commerce site. If you want to know more about e-commerce, and how Site Server and Site Server Commerce Edition can help you get your foot in the door, then this is the book for you. No previous knowledge of Site Server is assumed: if you're a beginner with the Site Server 3.0 product, Beginning Site Server 3.0 will help you get up and running as quickly as possible, but even more advanced Site Server 3.0 professionals will benefit from the technical information included.

About the Author
Tim Huckaby is the Founder and President of InterKnowlogy. InterKnowlegy's core competency is with Internet commerce interchange, business Internet systems and multi-tiered application software design. Previously Tim was the architecture team Developer Lead at Microsoft for the Customizable Starter Sites during MS's Site Server 3.0 product development. Since shipping the Site Server 3.0 product, Tim has been developer and/or lead architect on a number of large and successful e-commerce web sites.

Mike Kendzierski, Director of Internet Services at USWeb/CKS Cornerstone brings extensive experience deploying and developing complex client-server and Internet e-commerce systems. Mike is a regular speaker at technical conferences such as Microsoft Explorer and ASPDevCon on topics ranging from e-commerce systems to systems design and network architecture for high performance web sites. Mike is also a published technical author with titles including Windows NT and BackOffice technologies such as Site Server and Internet Information Server.

Jarrod Marshall is a consultant for G.A. Sullivan, a software development component based out of St. Louis, Missouri.

Brad Sherrell is the manager of E-Business for the Life Division of Pacific Life Insurance Company. He is responsible for the development of Internet applications and specializes in applicaton architecture using Microsoft technologies.

Gopal Sreeraman is a senior consultant with Professional Access Ltd., NY. He is currently involved with architecting and developing Web applications for large organisations.

Customer Reviews

Excellent Overview of Site Server
This book gives an excellent grounding on Site Server without assuming much more than a rudimentary knowledge of web development. Having said that it doesn't waste time teaching you html or asp, rather concentrating on Site Server features by using examples that are self explanatory.

All the main areas of Site Server are covered, though with a definite leaning to the commerce features.