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Newscape: Final Netcaster in the wings: Netscape promises Netcaster in mid-August, plus Netscape pushes into India (500 words)
by Sari Kalin IDG News Service, Boston Bureau, U.L. Pai IDG News Service, South India Bureau
Aberdeen report: Netscape a dimming Internet star: Report based on faulty assumptions, company retorts. (710 words)
by Torsten Busse IDG News Service San Francisco Bureau
Web advertising up sharply to $206 million: European smart card market to reach $2.4 billion by 2003. (1,300 words)
by Marc Ferranti IDG News Service, New York Bureau
Smart card roundup: Netscape embraces standard while Microsoft releases SDK, plus...: With patience, e-commerce will pay off, market research firms say. (1,600 words)
by Marc Ferranti IDG News Service, New York Bureau and Kristi Essick IDG News Service London Bureau
Netscape briefs: Netscape shuffles execs to streamline decision making, plus...: Updates on next-gen servers & new deals with Digital, Excite, others. (1,200 words)
by IDG News service reporters around the world
Research group upbeat about music on the net: Netcasting, online sales futures sound just fine. (900 words)
by Marc Ferranti
Internet stirs growth for security, analysis software: Meanwhile, Singapore users promised high-speed Internet access. (800 words)
by IDG News service reporters around the world
Best practices: 11 steps to choosing the right ISP for your Web site: Ignore this hard-earned advice at your own risk. (2,800 words)
by Rick Cook

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Web commerce to grow, corporate concerns to remain over the Internet: With patience, e-commerce will pay off, market research firms say. (1,000 words)
by IDG News service reporters around the world
Five tips to consider before venturing down the road to e-commerce: Thinking about cost, application choice, security, customer service, and ISP selection. (3,500 words)
by Jim Carr
Hidden banking issues that may thwart your Web commerce plans: We all know how to use a credit card. Here are the basics to processing a credit transaction. (2,400 words)
by Ariel Amster
Credit card fraud a $1 billion problem -- how much of it is yours?: How your risks vary with your product mix, sales volume & bravery. (5,500 words)
by Peter F. Cassidy

Webcast Strategies: Can we put an end to multimedia player mania? The search for a universal player: The latest trend toward multimedia players supporting multiple codecs benefits developers and users alike. (2,000 words)
by Jon Leland
New products: Packeteer offers relief from overloaded push traffic: 37 new products for Web developers and Webmasters, including new Java Foundation Classes. (7,400 words)
by Jim Carr
More new products: SGI, Cosmo Software unveil new authoring applications...: Plus, a host of new Java application development tools from Sun, Apple & others. (7,500 words)
by Jim Carr
NetscapeWorld's Net news central: Articles elsewhere on the Net for Webmasters, Web developers & designers. Complete with links to full-length articles.

A Web developer's guide to the newest cross-browser compatibility issues: So you think ECMAScript, CSS1, and HTML 4 will solve your cross-browser problems? Wrong! (5,300 words)
by Shelley Powers
Representing content: The basics of meta data: How do you represent information about content? The choices range from the simple META tag to Netscape's recently proposed Meta Content Format. (2,600 words)
by Denise Bilbao
First impression: 7 commercial log processing tools slice & dice logs your way: Or so they claim. We help you decide if you should spend $0 or $3,000. (2,500 words)
by Tova Stabin & Caitlin E. Glasson
HTML Q&A: How to pre-load images using JavaScript, plus...: Keeping frames around your pages, and JavaScript's ubiquity. (1,900 words)
By Chuck Musciano
Webmaster Q&A: How passwords are encrypted in the HTTP/1.0 WWW-Authenticate scheme: Also, answers to 2 tricky JavaScript questions. (1,000 words)
by Mariva H. Aviram
Webmaster Rants & Raves: Teledesic, WebTV, compact graphics, & gratuitous vendor bashing: Plus, a mini review of a handy HTML tool, & nearly 40 URLs busy Webmasters need to know. (1,500 words)
by Cheryl C. Carter
VRML Technique: How to optimize the performance of VRML worlds Part II: Measuring the performance of your VRML browser can help you determine how to optimize your world designs. Also, we uncover the fastest & slowest browsers! (4,800 words)
by David R. Nadeau

Using Dynamic HTML to create an animated navigation bar: Add a little life to your Internet Explorer and Navigator Web page menus by following these steps. (2,100 words)
By Shelley Powers
Best Practices: The top 15 Web design irritants & how to avoid them: How many of these little sins send your visitors to competing sites? (2,800 words)
by Rick Cook
How to build a Web database with free software: All you need is 3 pieces of shareware and this article to create a form-based contacts database. (5,000 words)
by Brian Wilson
JavaScript columns!: Cut-n-paste these handy JavaScripts into your pages today!
Book reviews and excerpts -- Our picks for web developers: An ever-growing collection of reviews and extensive excerpts.
NetscapeWorld Job Bank: Your Web-specific employment resource.
Link to NetscapeWorld: It's easy -- and free.
Technical resources: Links to sites giving Web developers information on cookies, shopping carts, benchmarks, and Perl.
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