Active Server Pages

Being a surfer, you must have heard this term HTML. All the websites and web pages you visit on the Net are composed of HTML tags. However, with HTML you can only create static pages, meaning that there won't be any interaction between you and the webpage or server. Active Server Pages or simply ASP is a technology with which you can create webpages with dynamic content. This means that you can interact with the website. There are similar technlogies on the Internet, but ASP is the most widely used. When you create an ASP page,you will save the page with an extension .asp. The ASP tags will be embedded with HTML tags. An ASP page will also have a scripting language such as VBScript or JScript. Unlike a plain HTML page which is executed at the client side,that is your side, an ASP page is executed at the server side. Microsoft supplies some objects for ASP which help you interact with databases. ODBC is the object you will use on your ASP page to work with a database. You will use SQL query to communicate with the database. With many other features, ASP is indeed a very powerful technogy.