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Conceptualize, Build and Publish a Web site
Conceptualize, Build and Publish a Web site - What's required to get started All of us knowingly or unknowingly, use a standard decision making process in our day-to-day lives. The very first step of this process is to decide whether TO DO...
How to identify Spoof/Phishing emails - Protect yourself from identity theft.
What is a spoof email?
Spoof emails (sometimes also called "Phishing") are emails that pretend to be from a company or bank. The most common often come from eBay, PayPal, Barclays Bank etc. These emails will then contain a web link, if you click...
Installing Printer Drivers
A printer driver is a piece of software that allows the computer to talk to the printer. Without it the printer would be hopelessly lost since they do not speak the same language. Many times the printer manufacturer will find new and better ways to...
"We Were Taught To Say 'Thank You' ...
"We Were Taught To Say 'Thank You' ... Have We Forgotten HOW?" copyright 2002 John Evans When you get an order, do you remember to say Thanks to your customer? If someone requests information from you, or even your autoresponder, does the...
Why Aren't You Using CGI
The very name CGI used to send chills up my spine. For years I put it in the 'too-hard-basket'. But like most things in life, CGI is not as scary as it seems. If you have a cgi directory on your website and you know how to FTP files, chances are you...
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The Advantages of Dynamic Website Content
Think about your own surfing behavior. What types of websites do you visit the most often; which ones keep drawing you back?
If you are like most internet surfers, you will spend much of your time hanging around websites with dynamic website content, or content that is updated constantly or personalized to your preferences. The age of static, archival websites is long gone, in in its place is a dynamic and powerful internet driven by PHP, ASP, CGI, and Java.
But setting up a website with full SQL support and advanced features is not an easy task, especially for someone who is still waist deep in HTML coding.
So...what to do?
If you don't have the time or the will to commit to an advanced website with cutting-edge features and complicated scripts, there are still a good number of options that will make your website look more professional, with minimal effort.
An excellent resource is
href="http://www.hotscripts.com">Hotscripts - you can find a huge number of complete server side scripts there, many of them free. Another great resource is this Random Text Generator, which is a powerful PHP script to generate random content on your website. Show a new quote every day!
In the end, the choice to go all-out is up to you, but with the help of a few handy scripts and some rudimentary server-side know-how, you can turn a static page into an impressive multi-faceted datacenter overnight!About the Author
David Saharkhiz is a computer science major and National Merit Semifinalist at America's Clemson University. He provides comprehensive web-help and HTML coding tutorials, codes free HTML scripts, and works to help novice webmasters set up new websites.
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