Welcome to the help page. The purpose of this page is to explain to the ordinary person what some of the things that we are saying on this site means. This page is not written for advanced programmers.

ASP, ISAPI, PHP, JSP, JAVA, C#.NET, VB 6, DELPHI 6

Generally this is not important for the client to know or to understand, so if you do not understand it, do not be too concerned. It becomes an important issue to us, if we are to extend an existing web site on a server. Every web server only accepts certain languages and systems and we then have to find out which ones they are and write the application in a particular language. Some web servers are so inferior (for example Ledanet in Cairns) they do not give us any authority at all except building static web sites only. We do not select such a server at all and we warn not only our clients but also anyone who requests information. We are very sensitive about our back up support and the permission to use executable files.

Because our Internet sites are dynamic, it means that the server has to build the page before it can send it to the requesting web browser. In order to do that, we have to write the application in particular languages such as PHP, JAVA and so on.

For the client it does not matter in which language the application is written in, except for the C#.NET. C#.NET has most power and looks variation, for the lowest price (if the developer passes the cost savings over to the client as we do).

As a general Interest, the computer does not actually understand these programming languages. They are written for humans to understand. Once the application gets compiled, it gets changed into what we call an executable. The executable only consists of ones and zeros and only the computer can understand and execute them. Executables have an "exe" or "dll" extension.

IMPORTANT!

If a developer develops an application for you, may it be a desktop application or Internet application, they almost never supply you with the original document written in the original language (source codes). Without these source codes, which are written in a particular language, nobody can modify, change or expand your application and you are stuck with that developer, even if you do not wish him to carry out any more work. The difference between us and them is that we provide the source codes to our client and in this way our client can always go to someone else with the same application for bug fixes, modification and extensions, if he desires to do so, provided of course that the new developer possesses the required skill. Many web site developers (most in Cairns) do not have the skill and I have noticed that they rather give a prospective client the untruthful advice, that the application is flawed. If you think this is happening to you, you can contact us even if you are not our client.

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SQL - Structured Query Language

This is a very important language which almost all web developers in Cairns lack of. It is a universal language which databases understand. This language enables us to add new data into a database table, edit or delete data in a database and more.

This language is often written within a desktop - or web application and it can talk to an external database through a database driver. In this way a database can provide data for a web application to build a page, add, edit or delete existing data and more.

For example let's say we would say:
SELECT Productname FROM Products WHERE ProductPrice < 130000

It means get me all the Names of the Products, which are in the Products table of the database, which cost less than 130000 Dollars. So the consumer can see all the house prices in Manunda which cost less than 130000 Dollars. As you can see, one of the inadequacies with static web sites (they do not use a database) is, that you can not query anything. You would for example see all the hotels, not only the ones that are in the City and are less than 120 Dollars per night with breakfast. It is this what makes static sites so inferior! And there is no need for it, as with the new ASP.NET, dynamic sites can be built at the cost of static sites. Also remember that an ACCESS database on the ASP.NET web server is FREE and has awsome power. It is adequate for almost all small to medium size businesses and if an SQL2000 database is required, the extra cost is minimal!

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