Internet Publishing Handbook (Mike Franks)

Introduction:
This book is for those of you who want to publish on the Internet. I assume that you have browsed the Internet (at least a little) and are now ready to put information of your own on the Internet. This book will provide you with the information you need to set up shop, and it will enable you to reach millions of users who connect to the Internet looking for information, services, and products.
This book will take you through the process of Internet publishing from beginning to end, using examples and advice gathered from Internet publishers around the world.

It will bring you up to speed on the issues, techniques, and problems that you will encounter when you join the growing legions of educational institutions, government organizations, manufacturers and retailers, service organizations, large corporations and small businesses, those in the arts and sciences, and others who are tapping in to the Internet to publish information and quickly reach an expanding, worldwide audience, thanks to tools such as Gopher, the World-Wide Web, and the Wide Area Information Server.

As of May 1995 there were more than 30,000 Internet publishing sites: more than 7,000 Gopher servers in at least 47 countries, at least 23,000 World-Wide Web (WWW) servers in 60 countries, and about 137 Wide Area Information Service (WAIS) hosts serving 420 databases (although this ignores the role that WAIS plays behind the scenes at many Gopher and WWW sites). The beauty of publishing on the Internet is that it is just as simple for the user or viewer (the person who reads what you publish) to get information from a site in Hong Kong as it is from the computer down the hall. The computer down the hall may respond faster, but the server in Hong Kong, Rio de Janeiro, or Finland may have special information that you want.
Book Link:
http://mikeandnaomi.com/book/