Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
Chapter XI
Server-Side
Technologies
David Power
Canon, USA
John DiMarco
St. John's University, USA, and
New York Institute of Technology, USA
Introduction
When this topic went out for review, one of the reviewers was insightful enough
to recommend that I include some information on server-side technologies. As
I thought about the scholar's comments, I came to a few conclusions about the
importance of server-side technologies and their use within the Web portfolio.
For the most part, you can create a simple Web portfolio by using only client-
side tools. Client-side tools and technologies include Macromedia
Dreamweaver, Adobe audition, Macromedia Fireworks, HTML, and
JavaScript. But the reviewer made a good point in stating that ignoring server-
side technologies seemed inappropriate. With this in mind, and with the help
and research and writing contributions of my colleague and friend David
Power, we provide a basic overview of PHP, ASP, ASP.net, CGI & Perl, and
ColdFusion. These backend technologies have database driven components
