How Intranets Work

The perfect guide for the technically clueless on how everything Internet works from the macro to the micro levels in easy to understand discriptions and pictures. As a career counselor, I suggest this book for every client looking to work in the Internet or for a dot com company as the appropriate introduction to high tech for low tech types. It gives you the big and small pictures, literally, with accompanying technical jargon explained. I have not found a comparable book to use in this catagory that works as well.

This was a very helpful book for refamiliarizing myself with the concepts behind LANs and WANs. If you are truly just getting started with understanding intranets, you would be better served if you also got a copy of "How Networks Work" and read that book first.

It's easy to understand a LAN ... when there's an administrator to explain. It's easy to understand a WAN ... when there's a network support desk to fix problems for you. It's easy to get onto the Internet ... when your ISP has a tech support line with plenty of patience. But how does it all happen? What's TCP/IP mean? How come I get a "Forbidden!" message when I browse certain pages? This book is an excellent primer for the computer neophyte, or someone who's boning up on networking in the 90s. Simple text and easy to follow illustrations take you by the hand and gently explain things like "how a web page gets back to you?" and "what's the OSI Network Model?" Think networking is only for geeky techie types? Think again. Preston Gralla makes it all as clear as mom's chicken broth. David Spalding