Scripts

There are many scripts that make up a well designed and functional website. The most basic of these is HTML. This is the "primary" building block for all websites and can be quite confusing for the newcomer.

Next would be Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Actually this is not a script, as normally thought of, but sets the style and all of the formatting for each page and line of content on your website. What can take many, many lines of code in HTML can be done with a few simple statements using CSS.

Cascading Style Sheets allow web designers to make simple changes in formatting and layout for a complete website by simply changing one CSS master file. The use of CSS also reduces the amount of actual code required on a normal web page by a 100's of lines of code. This results in pages loading faster and with a more uniform formatting.

CSS is its own unique language and is supported by all modern browsers. Without properly written CSS it can take days, or even weeks, to make even the simplest of formatting changes to your website and your web pages. However, a simple change in a CSS file can change the look and feel of 100's, or even 1,000's, of web pages all at once!

Next in line of popularity of use is Java Scripting. JavaScript's are small pieces of code that can perform actions and/or functions on your individual web pages. The simplest of these would be the date code, or page last updated code. From there they can increase in complexity and design performing a lot of "functions" that otherwise would be very difficult to perform. These include posting and filling out forms, actions based on user input, etc.

Next in line is pHp programming. Using this scripting language many highly complex functions can be handled with ease. Writing pHp programming code is NOT for the faint of heart. The proper coding, and debugging, can be rather complex and time consuming, even for experts. However, without pHp scripts many useful common functions would simply not work - such as membership site scripts, complex input forms, e-commerce sites, shopping carts, etc.

There are other popular scripts used today, depending on your web server. Some of these are Ajax, SQL, CGI, PERL, ASP, .Net, C, C++, Python and of course XML. There is not enough space here to even begin a discussion of these disparate programming languages and scripting methods. However, at one point or another most web designs will use some, or all, of each of these in the design and layout.

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