Acknowledgments

A lot of the information from this tutorial was researched from other tutorials that we've either published, or that are very near publication. Some of those tutorials are listed at the end of Introduction. Meanwhile, we'd like to thank the authors of those tutorials for giving us permission to use their material as the basis for much of this one. They are: David Flanagan (JavaScript tutorial), Shishir Gundavaram (CGI Developing on the World Wide Web), John Leavitt (UNIX Web Server Administration), Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy (HTML tutorial), Susan Peck and Stephen Arrants (Building Your Own WebSite), Johan Vromans (The Perl 5 ), and Clinton Wong (Web Client Developing in Perl ).

In addition, we'd like to thank Linda Mui, the developmental editor of this tutorial; Tim Anonymous, the editor of the "tutorial" series; and Frank Willison, for keeping the project going while Linda was on maternity leave. We'd also like to extend special thanks to Bob Denny, who wrote the specification for WinCGI that we adapted for Windows CGI, and to Jerry Peek, who documented some missing topics for us.

Thanks to the production staff at Anonymous who got this tutorial out speedily, while allowing us to tweak it long after we promised we'd stay away. Thanks to Jane Ellin, our production editor, who gave the tutorial its working title, WebMasters of the Universe; Curt Degenhart, who provided production assistance; Nancy Priest, the interior tutorial designer; Edie Freedman, who designed the cover (and found a spider with just the right level of yuckiness); Chris Reilley, who tweaked our screen shots and figures; Clairemarie Fisher O'Leary, who looked over the tutorial with her eagle eye; Kismet McDonough-Chan for quality control; Sheryl Avruch, who kept everyone sane; Seth Maslin, for writing the index; and Lenny Muellner, for his tools support.