JacquieCC said:
Hi,
I have been told that I should confvert my website from html to php - what
is the difference and is tit the 'next thing'?
Sorry - totally ignorant about the differences - even if there is someone
that can post some articles to read on the differences that would be
great,
thanks in advance
Jacquie
The advantage of going from a static (htm/html) page to a dynamic capable
(aspx php etc) is that it allows the ability to offer more in the future.
Here are some example of where this comes into play-
My wife runs a group for school aged girls. The groups website was located
on the sponsors website, which was pretty much maxed out space wise, so I
had to remove some pictures whenever I had new ones to post. My wife went
and got her own domain, but the search engines already knew where her site
was. After we copied over the site to the new host, we stripped the old site
of all code and replaced it with a 301 redirect action. This allowed the
search engines to know the site was moved permanently, and anyone who had
the site bookmarked was automatically transferred to the new web site
location transparently.
Often times people will have a schedule of events located on their web page.
This requires constant attention and changing of the web page to delete,
edit, and add dates to the page. For my fire department page, all of the
events are in a database. When the web page is opened up, a query is run on
that database to only pull events from the current month and future. What
happened 6 months ago will not be listed as an upcoming event.
The page does not necessarily need to be php. There are other scripted page
languages out there, such as asp or asp.net. The differences are in the
language that you can program the page with. Asp.net actually allows you a
few different languages. Not all servers support all scripting languages, so
it is best to check what your host allows. One thing that is common to all
of them- you can take a static html page and rename it to one of these, and
it will work. You don't have to use the scripting capabilities
