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also a handful of code samples which are part of this category where their purpose is heavily tied in with the
ongoing development or administration of a website.
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however if what you want is not here you might want to try going back to the
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ASP script created as a replacement for the default 404 error page which ships with IIS. Aside from allowing a more personal (not to mention useful) message than the default page provided, this script also allows 301 & 302 redirects to be issued based upon the page which generated to the 404 in the first place. This means pages which have been moved can automatically take the user to the new page, allowing the user to get what they want rather than spending time trying to find your missing page. Also supports generating 403 forbidden and virtual aliases.
ASP script designed to stop images from being hot-linked (linked to and/or used from other website). If an attempt is detected you can choose the exact image you would like to send in place of the image they requested. Additionally as the script uses only basic ASP components no ISAPI or 3rd party components are required to be installed before you can use this script.
VB utility capable of processing a number of website log files and extracting all the search terms present in the file, providing a low-level view of where the traffic from your site is coming from any why. Unlike some log analysis packages this will list every search term in your logs, you can also train it to pick up search terms from new sources from within the application which allows you to near perfect coverage of your logs at a very low level.
VB utility which extracts a complete list of all user-agents from a set of IIS log files, capable of auto-detecting the field layout, scanning through all available logs and then constructing a list which includes the user-agent string, the first and last times the UA made a request, the highest and lowest TCP/IP addresses this UA has ever been seen on and the total number of requests made. Output format can include a simplified text output or the full detail XML output.
VB utility to aid in the preparation of IIS logfiles, which modifying the log files just enough to allow them to be easily imported into any major database or spreadsheet package in order to be examined or analysed.
ASP script created to allow the correct handling of requests for resources moved to a new location - response.redirect issues a 302 status which claims that the resource is temporarily moved whereas this script issues a 301 status code which means that the resource has moved permenantly. This not only means it is using the correct method but that it will make more sense to things like search engines.
ASP script created to allow access to all the variables at a given moment in time, displaying all server variables, session data, cookie data and form data all listed out neatly on one page.
Eventually most people want to create their own website, this guide covers the basics ideas, planning and implementation behind doing such a thing for a content heavy website all the while bearing in mind things like the cost of on-going maintenance. This is not designed to be a guide to writing your first ever website - one of the major assumptions the guide makes is that you are happy with your own ability to create this content. Most of the material in this guide is based on my own experiences while setting up this site and covers the entire design and development life-cycle - at the end you should have an idea what is involved in creating a website which is of a decent size, yet due to the level of planning design which went into making it is also easy to maintain and easy to use.
Times have changed since the web as we know it began, a mere few years ago every element on every page had to be given a specific set of formatting and parameters to even allow you to gain some control over it - this lead to inconsistent designs, pages bloated with all those extra characters, not to mention being a complete nightmare to maintain - the solution to this problem came in the form of cascading style sheets or CSS for short. This guide explains a little about style sheets, what they are and how you can make use of them, as well as covering what they are made up of and touching on a few advanced structures before finishing off with some examples.
Absolute sizes are the scale most people are used to seeing and using, however have you ever stopped to consider that specifying font sizes in points isn't perhaps the best approach? This article outlines a few of the cases for using a relative scale when you are creating pages, and also includes a simple lookup to aid with converting font sizes in points to font sizes as a percentage.