Alex Homer's Professional ASP Web Techniques

The problems come as your site starts to grow and mature. Web sites are supposed to be enticing and exciting (so as to attract new visitors), and contain ever-changing content (to make those visitors come back again). How do you maintain and keep control of a fast-growing and ever-changing site, while still keeping it informative, accurate, and error-free? The answer is automation; and the combination of Windows 2000 Server, Internet Information Server, a server-based data source, and Active Server Pages, makes it possible to design your site so that it's easy to manage and maintain. They even make it easier to add regular new content, and keep the site looking fresh.

Do you know how many visitors your site gets, and who they are? How can you tell which topics your visitors are most interested in, and which areas of your site get the most traffic-and even what times of day are busiest? How do you implement secure access to certain areas, so that you can charge for premium content or prevent access to administration pages' This book tackles all these topics-under the three general headings of controlling, maintaining and monitoring your Web site.

You won't see pages of setup information for Windows 2000 (though we will look at installing SQL Server), or a tutorial for ASP. What you will see is down-to-earth discussion of the issues that webmasters have to face daily, and real code solutions. If you are building or administering a Windows 2000-based Web site, this book should be on your shelf.

Table of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Dynamic Web Sites - The Foundations
Chapter 2: Managing Navigation
Chapter 3: Building Pages Dynamically
Chapter 4: Managing Browser Compatibility
Chapter 5: A Compatible Frameset Example
Chapter 6: Access Control and Premium Content
Chapter 7: Remote Administration of Your Site
Chapter 8: Feedback, Errors, and Broken Links
Chapter 9: Gathering Information about Your Visitors
Chapter 10: Creating Reports about Your Visitors
Chapter 11: The Plug and Play Chapter
Chapter 12: Integrating Email with Your Web Site
Chapter 13: Integrating XML with Your Web Site
Chapter 14: The Blue-Sky Chapter
Appendix A: Certificates and Certificate Services
Appendix B: ASP Component and Resource Sites
Appendix C: ASP Object Model Reference
Appendix D: Scripting Library Objects Reference
Appendix E: ASP 3.0 Installable Components Reference
Appendix F: ActiveX Data Objects 2.5 Library Reference
Appendix G: HTTP 1.1 Header Codes
Appendix H: Language Codes and LCID Numeric Values
Appendix I: HTML Color Names and Values
Appendix J: HTML Character Entity Equivalents
Appendix K: Server-Side Include Directives and Utilities
Appendix L: Common MIME Types and File Extensions
Appendix M: Glossary of Terms and Acronyms
Appendix N: Support and Errata