Summary: How to Publish a Web Book

Break the book into small "pages" for speed when uploading
Provide the book as a single file
Use a consistent, well-mapped page design
Expand your audience by linking to other sites
Go easy on the big graphics until everyone has a T1 line
Degrade gracefully to less powerful browsers
Download and buy a few good tools to help you

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Notes:

To assist search engines to better index your site, put <meta> tags in the <head>. Here are some from Robelle’s welcome page.

<META NAME="Keywords" Content="HP3000, HP 3000, Hewlett Packard, MPE, HP9000, HP 9000, HP-UX, Computer Software, HP, encyclopedia, smugbook, smug, Qedit, editor, full-screen,Suprtool, database, utility, sort, fast "> <META NAME="Description" Content="Robelle Consulting's main WWW homepage"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="keywords" Content="HP3000">

Now that you have your Web book done, you have to let people know about it. Since you can't go on a talk show tour (or could you?), you need to promote the site on the Net itself.

Submit the URL of your book to the search engines, such as Yahoo, Lycos, Infoseek, Alta Vista, etc. After a delay of days to weeks, they will index your pages and make the information available to searchers.
Send e-mail announcements to your friends, relatives, co-workers, and the related web-sites that you linked to in your book.
Post a short announcement to relevant news groups.
Post a short announcement to relevant mailing lists.

Now, sit back and enjoy the kudos for all your hard work.

For Techies:

Add a search engine to your Web site for automated indexing. We use excite but there are many more.

http://www.excite.com

References:

Yahoo: Search for INTERNET ANNOUNCE

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