HTML To ASP.NET
Many people have websites with pages built as static
HTML pages. If you have a small website, with just a few pages,
this can be fine. But, if your needs are larger, such as dozens of
pages, or even hundreds, or thousands, you can quickly run into
trouble trying to make all those web pages by hand with HTML. What
do you do?
ASP.NET could be the answer.
If you have a handful, hundreds, or many more products that you'd
like web pages for, it would be a lot of work to make web pages for
each of these items. But
Barnes &
Noble does it, among many others. They can't possible have
people typing all day to make all those web pages, right? What's the
secret?
They build web pages to serve as a template and these pages get
their data from a
database. So,
basically, the template web page gets data from a database, fills in
the appropriate sections, such as book title, description, etc, then
the webpage is displayed on the users web browser. Knowing this,
then, you can see you could put a virtually unlimited number of
items into a database and then be able to have a virtually unlimited
number of web pages from these database items. The added bonus is
when you get tired of the look of the pages all you need to do is
change the template page and then all the subsequently shown pages
are with the new look. Try that with static HTML pages. You can't.
