What is ASP?

Like Coldfusion, Active Server Pages (ASPs) are web pages that contain server-side scripts in addition to the usual mixture of text and HTML. Server-side scripts are special commands you put in web pages that are processed before the pages are sent from your Personal Web Server to the Web browser of someone who's visiting your Web site.

When you type a URL in the Address box or click a link on a web page, you're asking a web server on a computer somewhere to send a file to the Web browser (sometimes called a "client") on your computer. If that file is a normal HTML file, it looks exactly the same when your Web browser receives it as it did before the Web server sent it. After receiving the file, your Web browser displays its contents as a combination of text, images, and sounds.

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Th various types of database web site programming.

ColdFusion - A web application development tool that creates dynamic Web pages and interactive Web sites. An interactive Web site consists of dynamic page templates that contains both HTML and CFML tags. When a page containing both tags is requested by the browser, the server dynamically generates an HTML page based on the request. AHSS is a uk coldfusion developer who specialises in database web site programming and web site optimisation.
PHP – a server-side scripting language that allows you to do a lot more than access a database easily.
Structured Query Language (SQL) –the standard language for interacting with relational databases.
MySQL – a free relational database management system (RDBMS) available on most platforms under the GPL

ASP - Covered next time.

Database web site programming

More often than not, the people who provide the content for a site are not the same people who handle its design. Oftentimes, the content provider doesn't even know HTML. How, then, is the content to get from the provider onto the Web site? Not every company can afford to staff a full-time Webmaster, and most Webmasters have better things to do than copying Word files into HTML templates anyway.

Maintenance of a content-driven site can be a real pain, too. Many sites feel locked into a dry, outdated design because rewriting those hundreds of HTML files to reflect a new design would take forever. Server-side includes (SSI’s) can help alleviate the burden a little, but you still end up with hundreds of files that need to be maintained should you wish to make a fundamental change to your site.

The solution to these headaches is database driven web site design. By achieving complete separation between your site's design and the content you want to present, you can work with each without disturbing the other. Instead of writing an HTML file for every page of your site, you only need to write a page for each kind of information you want to be able to present. Instead of endlessly pasting new content into your tired page layouts, create a simple content management system that allows the writers to post new content themselves without a lick of HTML!

What is web site optimisation?

Web site optimisation is a high return marketing strategy. A process of conditioning/refining a site for top search engine ranking. The marketing objective is creating brand new streams of traffic that are the most valuable leads available - those referred by search engines.
More people discover web sites from engine referral than all other promotion sources combined. Leads are highly qualified since uniquely performed searches predefine user intent. Studies prove that this approach substantially increases revenue. Best of all, the ROI is unmatched by any other web site marketing strategy. Powerful results makes Search Engine Optimisation a very attractive investment by any company.

What is e-commerce?

E-commerce is the term used for business on the Internet. E-commerce can refer to electrical sites such as www.jbracing.co.uk who sell performance motorcycle exhausts. This is an E-commerce web site, one which was first a high street store and the other an Internet only business. This e-commerce solution provided by AHSS the Wigan web site design specialists.
Along with large national chains there are also small and medium size e-commerce web sites for a massive range of products such as jewellery, mobile phones and music cds. To help these sites do business online many IT companies provide services / software such an e-commerce solution including shopping cart systems and secure credit card processes

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As a uk coldfusion developer, I have developed a full e-commerce solution that knocks the socks of anything you have ever seen before.
It can be plugged into any existing web site on the internet, providing your ISP supports Coldfusion, or I can design a complete web site incorporating the e-commerce solution, such as www.jbracing.co.uk