|
ASP Hosting
ASP stands for Active Server Pages and was developed by the Microsoft Corporation. Currently there are two forms of ASP, the "classic" ASP (designated 1-3) and ASP.NET. Classic ASP is no longer supported by Microsoft. Instead Microsoft has been pushing the .NET version of ASP. Both forms of Active Server Pages are HTML pages with embedded ASP scripts that are processed on the server before the page is sent to the user. ASP allows you to create dynamic database driven pages.
ASP scripts (commands) are written into HTML (the basic language of the Web) and are executed on the server side (the server runs the scripts and sends the results straight to your computer). PHP is a very robust language and has a wide variety of applications and is commonly used in building dynamic (more on this later) websites. ASP is a very popular programming language and as such you should be able to find a lot of pre-built scripts and add-on components (forum software, shopping carts, ad banner rotators, etc). However, the bulk of these components cost a few.
There are basically two kinds of Web pages on the Internet, static pages and dynamic pages. Static pages display information that never changes. Dynamic pages are Web pages that can change its content automatically. Programming languages, such as JavaScript, change pages automatically as the page loads in the user's browser window. This is called "client-side" scripting. Other programming languages such as PHP or ASP automatically change the page before it loads in the browser. This is called server-side" scripting since changes happen on the server.
Dynamic Pages allow the Web designer to build a site that can change based on various programming commands, including parameters. The commands are powerful and they give you more control over your Web pages and Web site. With the use of a database, for example, dynamic pages can even enable you to build a very large Web site without having to write out the design, layout, and data for each individual page. A database driven Web site provides an unlimited range of options to the developer, but a dynamic page does not need to load information from a database to be dynamic. more.....
|
|
|
![[Valid RSS]](/images/rss_valid_two.gif "Validate my RSS feed"){kind=small}