Chapter 12. Programming Web Forms

To call the Web trendy is certainly an understatement. The World Wide Web is just about the hottest thing to hit computing since the bit. Web technologies permeate every facet of computing from the power switch to the eyeball and everything in between.

If you’ve created Web pages but never done programming, then your pages must have been ordinary Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) files. You type whatever you want the page to say, add some formatting, toss in some pictures and hyperlinks, and end up with a page that never changes until you or your distinguished associates repeat the process. Creating Web pages this way is useful and rewarding, but it only scratches the surface of what the Web can do.

Today’s Web developers ...

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