Determining the type of website you require can be daunting. The type of technology available to create a website is vast and often confuses our customers. They come to us trying to decide whether the site should be developed with Flash, in PHP or ASP, dynamic verse static and on and on.

The way to sort all of this is to ignore the technology and concentrate on the main problem. And the main problem is what is the website suppose to do (again we’re back to Establishing Goals again)?

Is it a business to business concept or business to consumer? Maybe you want your products to purchased by anyone in the world or perhaps you’re trying to get leads by having people use the website to contact you for more information about something on the site. Concentrate on determining what your website goals are and we will find the best technology for your requirements.

Below is a short description of some of the more popular technology available but it is only a reference. We use what ever will solve the problem the best.

HTML - Hypertext Markup Language is the authoring software language used on the Internet's World Wide Web. HTML is used for creating World Wide Web pages.

URL - Abbreviation of Uniform Resource Locator, the global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web. You can see the URL in the Address Area of your browser tool bar.

Dynamic or Static URL – A Dynamic URL is one that results from the search of a database-driven Web site or the URL of a Web site that runs a script. A Static URLs, is one where the contents of the Web page do not change unless the changes are coded into the HTML.

Active Server Pages - Abbreviated as ASP, a dynamically created Web page with a .ASP extension that utilizes ActiveX scripting -- usually VB Script or Jscript code. When a browser requests an ASP page, the Web server reads the ASP code and then generates a page with HTML code which is sent back to the browser. ASP is similar to CGI scripts, but they enable Visual Basic programmers to work with familiar tools.

PHP - Short for: Hypertext Preprocessor, an open source, server-side, HTML embedded scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. Because PHP is executed on the server, the client cannot view the source code.