Web Page Development

Web Page Development

If you have come here looking for great insite or cool utilities, I'm afraid you came to the wrong page. This is just a list of links to interesting/informative pages I have stumbled across. I've had my own Web pages since 1996, but doubt that I will every concider myself a WEB guru. A good practitioner, yes; but a teacher, probably not. Over the years I've published some utilities and documentation on file formats that don't seem to be available elsewhere, but my interests were static and easily satisfied via HTML.

Recently I was motivated to look into dynamic web page development, and found it an interesting area. Charlotte, the love of my life, asked me to administer her FPNS web site. Since she is in a position to exert significant motivational pressure I agreed. I also have a cousin who runs a for profit site, SXM INFO, and has some interesting search issues which I've been exploring. To give credit where its due, I was not involved in the creation of these sites, I'm just tagging along after the fact.

There are new emerging methods that get attention. Not too surprisingly Microsoft appears to want people to move from the older traditional Unix models to things that are specific to the NT Security model. I'm resisting that approach right now, if in doubt as to why, see the top of my Home page. However, one finds there have been significant security issues with CGI. Presumably because its been around long enough that people have learned how to exploit it, but its a concern. Its also normally addressed by the script authors, but you want to be sure your current scripts are up to date! Many servers support a Unix style /cgi-bin which is the method I target in the links below. From a client side perspective I'm focusing on HTML and JavaScript at the moment, but that could change.