Types of Sites

There are a few different types of websites you can build.

HTML – These websites are client side types of websites. This means the code is stored inside the webpage and is executed via your web browser which transfers the code to a nice looking webpage. If your adding any type of scripting you need to make sure this will work with all types of browsers otherwise your site may look good on one browser but not on another. Most browsers today are wysiwyg (what you see is what you get). These types of software operate Like Word. Just type in teh text and teh coding is generated for you automatically.

PHP & ASP – To build this type of website you will need to have experience programming in php or asp. PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor. ASP stands for active server pages. You could build 2 types of websites using these codes. One that is connected to a database and one that is not. The advantage of using php for example on its own (like html) is that you can include files in the actual webpage. An example of this is including the website menu.  If you decide to expand your website and add another 30 pages all you would need to do is change the menu php file with the updated links, upload this to your hosting package and like magic your whole website will have all the links updated.
To use php this needs to be installed on your hosting package which is generally done automatically. To use ASP you will need to purchase a windows hosting acount package. Generally standard Linux hosting packages are cheaper.

Flash – These types of websites are powerful multimedia types  where you can animate all sorts of stuff and you can have a powerful fully interactive website. No matter how many pages you have in a flash website there are generally only 2 files. The flash file itself and the html webpage that has the flash embed code added that shows the website. The website visitor needs to have flash installed. Some smart phones do not allow flash content sp you need to keep this in mind.

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