We can offer many different services more than just regular HTML to give you a much more appealing website. They include: DHTML - Dynamic HyperText Markup Language, in other words this means you can access elements dynamically (hence the name) even after the page has completed loading. For example, you would have the ability to move objects, change colors, sizes, make things disappear, and change the appearance of something just to name a few. CGI - CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface. It is the method by which information can be passed from the client computer to the server. You can use it for sending mail, forms, and also getting information off the server. CGI scripts can be written in a number of languages, the most common of which is PERL. PERL - Short for Practical Extraction and Report Language. A PERL script is just a text file that can be executed. It is a very useful and powerful language for interpreting commands and statements. One of its more popular uses is the ability to send email directly from a webpage. JavaScript - JavaScript is a full programming language with a number of options that makes it so useful to the Internet programmer. It is object oriented like Java or C++, uses event handlers to determine when to execute something, and has built-in functions for objects that differ between the browsers. Some popular and useful examples of what JavaScript does are mouseovers, browser detection, verification, and decision making. Java Applets - Applets are very popular and highly customizable pieces of compiled Java code. They are used to run Java programs and enhances how a web page looks, as well as what it can do. Most of the applets on the web do spectacular visual displays like 3-D graphics, vector processing, and image rendering. CSS - Cascade Style Sheets are a set of rules that govern the look or "style" of a web page. It's a method for dividing your content from the design in your website. One style sheet can govern the whole site, a division, or just a sub-section. Multiple style sheets can even be used on a single document. You can change the font, the color, and even its position on the page. A very useful tool in webdesign. SSI - Server Side Includes allows users to create documents which provides information to clients on the fly. Such information can include the current date, the file's last modification date, and the size or last modification of other files. In its more advanced usage, it can be used to include only 1 piece of your code, say the code for your website's navigation, to be put in every page without having it there, only the SSI call to bring it in. PHP - Called "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor" is a server-side HTML-embedded scripting language. Perhaps the strongest and most significant feature in PHP is its support for a wide range of databases. The following databases are currently supported by PHP v3.0: Adabas D, InterBase, Solid, dBase, mSQL, Sybase, Empress, MySQL, Velocis, FilePro, Oracle, Unix dbm, Informix, and PostgreSQL. Cookies - A cookie is a small piece of information stored on the client's machine as a text file. Some of the basic things you can do with cookies are setting a cookie with a value, and specifying it with an expiration date, and getting a cookie value, given its name. You can set a user up to be able to visit a webpage for a pre-determined length of time, or to be able to let them access the website at all. |