Advanced HTML and Scripting Up until now, all the web pages you have created for 565 have had static content, and have not permitted a user to interact in any way other than clicking around to see things. In this assignment, you will create a simple web form that will allow a visitor to enter information, and that information will move from page to page as the visitor looks at your content. Before we begin to use forms, we have to take a broader look at the technologies that are available to handle our data. When information is passed from page to page, the server will have to understand how you are processing things. Each type of server uses a different "language" to handle background data. Most Linux servers running the Apache web server will also use PHP as the prime scripting language. If your server is a Windows server, it is most likely going to use ASP (Active Server Pages) to process scripting information. Take a look at your data from Assignment #4 to see the various server configurations schools are using. My data
shows that about 75% of the schools that I looked at are using Windows servers, which means that they will probably be configured to use Active Server Pages. The Homepages server at UF is also a Windows server, and it is configured to use ASP. So let's take a look at what ASP is, and how you can use it to do some scripting.
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