1-a: What Do I Need? ( Added: Mon Jun 13 2005   Hits: 55) As you learned in the ASP introduction primer, ASP is a server-side technology which means that the server for your website is the sole controller of whether or not ASP is available to you. ASP is also a product of Microsoft which means it will only run on Microsoft operating systems, however, there is a third party package that will help you get around this problem. We'll talk about that later.

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	1-b: How Does It Work? ( Added: Mon Jun 13 2005   Hits: 51) Now that you have a platform for running your ASP pages, hopefully, I'll bet you would like to know how the pages are actually processed. Well, it's pretty simple actually.

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1-c: Make Your First ASP Page ( Added: Mon Jun 13 2005   Hits: 56) Well, actually you already did. The test page code listed above is a fully functional ASP page. So, let's take a closer look at it and see what it is doing. The first thing you probably noticed were the goofy looking <% and %> tags. Those little guys are ASP's way of telling the server that inside here is some code that needs to be looked at and processed. Also, did you notice that the ASP tags are sprinkled in and amongst the standard HTML that you are already familiar

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	2-a: The DIM Statement ( Added: Mon Jun 13 2005   Hits: 51) So, what the heck is a DIM...and what DIM-wit came up with the name? Well, DIM actually stands for dimension and is a hold over from the original BASIC language. What DIM does is let the computer know what variables you are going to use. The computer needs to know what variables you will use in order to reserve some space for them.

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2-b: The IF .. THEN Statement ( Added: Mon Jun 13 2005   Hits: 50) And now on to bigger and better things, the IF .. THEN statement. This will probably be one of the statements that you use the most in VBScript. The IF .. THEN statement is what is known as a conditional statement. In other words, when some condition is met (or not met for that matter) then something happens. Boiled down to its simplest form, that is programming in a nutshell. It is simply a series of events and responses to those events.

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2-c: The CASE Statement ( Added: Mon Jun 13 2005   Hits: 51) Now that you have an idea of how conditional statements work we'll throw out another one to you, the CASE statement. The CASE statement is very much akin to the IF .. THEN. For our example of the CASE statement we're going to give you a practical example. Whenever possible we'll try to give at least one practical example with each segment of our primer series. Here's your practical example for this segment:

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