Re: ASP

Tamara wrote
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I am
looking for an *in a nutshell* on just what asp is and what it does. I've
heard it will do everything except butter my bread, but I'm having trouble
understanding why anyone would use it in the first place.

I only recently learned CSS and I'm struggling with JavaScript, but it seems
those would be adequate tools for most sites. I want to grab my company's
website so I can view it offline, but the asp seems to prevent this.
******

Hi

www.hotwired.com/webmonkey have a very good asp tutorial called "My First 
Database" that is well worth reading.
As for working around the asp, depending on what the site is this will 
probably be very dificult. Asp is usually used with databases and one asp 
page can 'create' hundreds of web pages. For eg. I am doing a site for an 
organisation that has many clubs throughout South Africa. I have all their 
addresses in a database, so I can create 2 asp pages where users can select 
the club they're interested in and that info will be pulled from the 
database and presented as a web page. Thus 2 pages 'make' over sixty pages 
(there are 67 clubs).

You can't open the pages off line because asp needs to interface with the 
web server. You need an asp enabled server on your computer and all 
databases used in the site to view them off line. Luckily the windows 98 CD 
has one for free. It's called Personal Web Server and is found at
D:\addons\pws\ (where D is your CD rom) on your win98 CD.

This sounds complicated but it isn't really once you get into it (really, I 
promise). Go over webmonkey's tutorial, it explains everything very well.

Duncan



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