A web service is application logic that is programmatically available, and can be exposed using the Internet. Just as applications have targeted the rich services of the platform in the past, web applications of the future will take advantage of web services for programmability and feature enhancement.

The answer to this question is pretty simple. Macromedia's Flash being a much hyped about media is gaining popularity fast due to its impressive interface and interactivity. This being irrespective of the fact that sometimes the loading time can be a put off (if the viewer has got a slow Internet connection or the flash movie is huge in size). If skillfully used the beauty of a flash interface and its quick interactive capabilities with minimal loading time can be easily achieved. Coming to Microsoft's ASP (Active Server Pages - a technology that provides a framework for building dynamic HTML pages which enable Internet andIntranet applications to be interactive). ASP is very much a front runner in the race for dynamic and database driven web sites. In relation to Flash, ASP can be used as a bridge between the database and the flash interface.

Windows DNA is a platform for building distributed applications using the Microsoft Windows operating system and related software products. That statement leaves a considerable amount of room for confusion. What is a "platform"? What are "related products"? Even the term distributed computing has been given various definitions.It's worth the effort to sort out the confusion because multi-tier architectures like DNA are widely regarded as the future of large-scale development. As we will see in this chapter, such architectures offer significant benefits in the construction of mission-critical and enterprise-scale systems. This book will introduce and overview, just about everything you want to know about building modern, forward- looking applications for Windows. The Windows DNA architecture is a blueprint and set of guidelines for doing this.

The browser can do a great many things, but it has a limit of 216 colors that can “safely” (without dithering or color washout) display. Fortunately, there are many ways that you can display all the color combinations in the browser safe color palette (I do not think I have seen two places do this the same way yet). By placing the six possible values for color (00,33,66,99,CC,FF) in an array and nesting three for next statements with values one through six a table with all the color codes will neatly be displayed in a table

This script will open all HTML pages within the specified directory, reduce the file size of your html pages, and the files will be saved back. You may password protect the script, and it will allow a faster transmission of the page. A good script to learn how those task are perform.

Have you ever wondered how long one of your visitors spends filling out a particular form? Such information is vital for companies that conduct business on the Internet. Imagine if everytime you wanted to buy a book from Amazon.com you had to spend 60 seconds filling out a form with billing and shipping information - do you think you'd buy many books from Amazon.com in such a situation?

This basic tutorial will show you how to include information in a non-asp page information generated from an .asp page by using javascript. A banner rotator script and a text hit counter are used as examples.

Would you like to provide multi-language support on your site? In this article, we discuss three different ways in which you could organize your site to support multiple languages. We do not say that the three ways discussed in this article are the only ways of achieving the goal but this could be a good starting point.

This short tutorial will teach you how you can create a PDF file on the fly for free using ASP and a stored SQl Server procedure. Amazing!

Years ago a friend of mine asked me to help him start a new Web site called Carryout.Com. After months of working with data structures of a size I had never seen before, I turned out a decent Web site and an administration site I thought were perfect. An hour after taking a look at the new site, my friend said there was only one small problem