Active Server Pages
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Instructor Ramblings
Free Active Server Pages Web Hosting
Here is a list of free ASP site hosts that I know exist - there may be others, so if you know of one, please do post :-) I haven't personally used any of them, so I don't know about the quality (and most do require ad placement), but, hey, they're free...
How to send email from an ASP page
Although it may seem at times that the rest of the world has moved on to the .NET platform, there really are still places using ASP and VB6 (and Windows 2000! :-). Although I had to go to the Internet Archive to get the article, here's a neat (if old) little article on how to send email through ASP (assuming you've got an SMTP server hanging around somewhere).
W3Schools ASP Tutorial
The W3Schools tutorials are generally quite good. Here's the one for Active Server Pages. You can even take a quiz when you're done! Make sure you check out their other offerings, as well, especially the XML ones which every Web programmer should know.
How to Retrieve a Bitmap from Access and Display It in Web Page
Here's an old, but still quite valid, Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) article on HOWTO: Retrieve Bitmap from Access and Display It in Web Page (Q175261). Enjoy!
ASP Session Article
When Session Variables Go Bad - Tying Up Loose Ends
NetMechanic Webmaster Design Tip: Website Usability Checklist
One of the many, many email newsletters I receive is from NetMechanic. The one that showed up today had a link to a nice article on making sure your Website works well for the users: Web Site Usability Checklist.
Challenge Labs
I'm sure you've all encountered the ubiquitous e-postcard sites on the Web (Hallmark has a very nifty one, for instance). Our Challenge Lab for this class will focus on building our own e-postcard site, using Active Server Pages.
Now, as you know, we can't just jump right in and start writing code. We need to do some planning. So, this week I want each of you to think about what would go into setting up an e-postcard site. Do some brainstorming, as though a client had approached you/your team with this project. Please post your comments/answers here. Have fun!
Thinking for just two minutes, here's what I came up with for fields and data types:
| postcardID | bigint(20) |
| sendername | varchar(50) |
| senderemail | varchar(75) |
| recipientname | varchar(50) |
| recipientemail | varchar(75) |
| photoname | varchar(50) |
| midiname | varchar(50) |
| greetingtext | text |
| timedatesent | datetime |
| timedatepickedup | datetime |
| informsenderpickup | tinyint(1) |
Your job now is to pick apart what I just posted :-) Go for it! ;-)
[Note: I will try to post answers to this Challenge Lab during the month of April, 2004]
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