This book explains what the Web is and how to write web pages. It also covers topics like what the Internet is, how it works, what webservers are and how to administer them, in some detail. Technologies covered include: HTML4-5, images, CGI/Perl, PHP, MySQL, AJAX/JSON, JavaScript, Cookies, RSS, CSS, Forms, Apache. This book does not cover Flash, as it is deprecated, nor ASP, as the technologies covered are all open-source. The information provided is, however, sufficient for you to build an attractive and fully functional modern website for deployment on a Mac OS X, Linux or UNIX server.