| REALLY validate your email addresses! |
| I get a lot of feedback from 'sdsd' at email address 'asdsd'. I wanted to stop him, so I went looking for a suitable solution… | | From Email-related examples, published 18 Sep, 20106616 views |
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| The classic Tell-a-friend email example. |
| The C language has the 'Hello World' program - ASP has the ubiquitous 'Tell-a-friend' script. They're everywhere, but here's the way I did mine... | | From Email-related examples, updated 17 Apr, 6038114 views |
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| Running ASP on your PC - installing Personal Web Server |
| The first stage to complete before running the CoverYourASP download on your PC - making ASP pages run at all... | | From Getting started with ASP, updated 18 Jan, 1192433 views |
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| Installing the CoverYourASP download on your PC |
| After setting up your web server, how to download, install and configure my source code on your PC... | | From Getting started with ASP, published 10 Jan, 978591 views |
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| Administer your database using these generic pages.. |
| Use my now-classic CoverYourASP db admin tools, or the latest addition: 1 Click DB Free! Now you can compare two completely different implementations and learn twice as much! | | From Database-driven examples, updated 29 Jun, 654799 views |
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| Maintaining state with Session variables |
| Read how Session variables can store user information for you - how they work, and when they don't... | | From Getting started with ASP, published 18 Apr, 534627 views |
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| The CoverYourASP Membership system explained |
| How I implemented the new membership system, sign in/out, auto signin with cookies, multiple levels, and site personalization | | From Database-driven examples, updated 10 Jan, 495237 views |
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| Read archived copies of my weekly newsletter |
| All my newsletters since the site went live in September 2000 are here. The earlier ones are particularly sad... ;-) | | From Dynamic content using ASP, published 16 Mar, 494386 views |
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| Part 3. Showing the results of your category browsing |
| A few ideas I had about displaying the well-worn 'results page' a la RealPages.com… | | From Database-driven examples, published 19 Aug, 412691 views |
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| Getting feedback emails from a <form> |
| Walk step-by-step through the feedback form and email code, with pages devoted to CDONTS, JMail, ASPMail and now ASPEmail too... | | From Email-related examples, updated 24 Mar, 345132 views |
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| Send me your comments and criticisms! |
| This form allows you to send feedback email to me. | | From Email-related examples, updated 18 Sep, 300306 views |
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| Using Application variables, and introducing global.asa |
| How to save thousands of unnecessary database queries using Application variables, and a fun little 'active user' counter | | From Getting started with ASP, published 2 Nov, 278527 views |
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| Implementing <form>'s with ASP |
| Here I show you the ASP code common to all forms I write, with discussions on validation and field persistance. | | From HTML tips and tricks, published 9 Feb, 266488 views |
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| Part 1. Implement content categories just like Yahoo! |
| Play with the live example I wrote for getting categories and subcategories from an Access database, and the method I chose for displaying them. | | From Database-driven examples, updated 15 Aug, 259534 views |
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| Troubleshooting the CoverYourASP download on your PC |
| Strange errors when you go to http://localhost/cya ? It's probably something I've heard about before...a few hundred times! | | From Getting started with ASP, published 10 Jan, 226746 views |
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| Accepting credit cards on your site - it's too easy! |
| The hardest part is filling out the forms, but once you've done that the "programming" part is child's play. | | From The CoverYourASP site, published 23 Feb, 156618 views |
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| Using exception handling to trap database connection errors |
| To make setting up my downloaded site on your computer easier I use exception handling to trap any errors that occur when connecting to the database... | | From Database-driven examples, published 25 Jan, 149656 views |
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| Download the complete CoverYourASP site and run on your server. |
| It's true! You can download every file on the site and run it on your personal computer - if you can't run ASP yet, start here... | | From Getting started with ASP, updated 29 Nov, 143889 views |
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| Displaying printer-friendly pages |
| A few lines of code is all it takes to implement a printer-friendly version of all your pages. Make all those pesky navigation bars and banners disappear! | | From Dynamic content using ASP, published 28 Jun, 125698 views |
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| Using <% %> correctly in ASP |
| This article explains why you shouldn't be sprinking <% %> render blocks throughout your HTML code. It's inefficient for the server and for your users! | | From Getting started with ASP, published 26 Sep, 123191 views |
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| Using <base href> to control your relative links |
| See how I use <base href>, and how you should configure it after you download the site. | | From HTML tips and tricks, published 29 Nov, 120667 views |
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| A complete banner advertising system |
| Serving up rotating banners for my advertisers, storing the ads in Application variables and tracking impressions and clickthroughs... | | From Database-driven examples, published 24 Dec, 119854 views |
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| Trapping HTTP 500.100 ASP errors in your pages |
| Learn how to replace the infamous "Page cannot be displayed" with profuse apologies and an email moaning to the webmaster... | | From Dynamic content using ASP, published 5 Jan, 114327 views |
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| The CoverYourASP Server Side Includes will save your ASP! |
| Server Side Includes, or SSI for short, are a very powerful tool. See how I use them, with links to articles that describe them... | | From Getting started with ASP, updated 8 Apr, 107129 views |
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| Hide your META tags from your enemies! |
| Those META keywords are valuable. You spent a lot of time investigating what works best. Your competitors want to know what you use, so that they can steal them! | | From Dynamic content using ASP, updated 25 Sep, 106555 views |
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| Getting started - what is ASP?! |
| No, it's not Application Service Provider, and No, it's not a language - use the term 'ASP developer' very loosely! | | From Getting started with ASP, updated 11 Sep, 106263 views |
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| A simple example of dynamic content - the time. |
| A very simple lesson in what ASP can do for you - generate different HTML for every reader! | | From Dynamic content using ASP, published 21 Jul, 100397 views |
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| Part 1. Allow your users to subscribe to your newsletter |
| See how I implemented a form to allow users to subscribe/unsubscribe to my mailing list. Email addresses are simply validated and added to my database | | From Email-related examples, published 14 Aug, 99540 views |
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| Survey: Who are you and what do you think? |
| Some basic information to start with - who you are, what you do, what you want. I'm already regretting having an 'It sucks' option =;-) | | From Help me help you - take a survey!, published 9 Oct, 94869 views |
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| Part 2. Arrange your categories in columns |
| Due to popular demand here's a Part 2 of the categories code! Here I show how to arrange the data in any number of columns to exactly duplicate the way the portals do it. | | From Database-driven examples, published 7 Aug, 94218 views |
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| Adding search capability to CoverYourASP |
| See how a single Server Side Include containing a single function is all you need.. | | From Database-driven examples, published 2 Feb, 86629 views |
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| Adding a database driven diary to the site |
| A better way to share the questions that I get emailed each day. Chit-chat, gossip, bug fixes, tips and tricks! | | From Database-driven examples, published 23 Nov, 82681 views |
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| Handling 404 errors with email - and a twist… |
| Take what you need from this article - send email when a 404 occurs, or perhaps write the next bigfoot.com? | | From Email-related examples, published 21 Jul, 80973 views |
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| Using HTTP and FTP in MFC to get the news. |
| How I wrote a simple MFC application to automatically update the ASPWire news section. | | From Dynamic content using ASP, published 4 Aug, 79062 views |
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| Resources that I recommend� |
| Books, affilate websites and websites offering services to web developers - I use them all! | | From The CoverYourASP site, published 11 Sep, 78973 views |
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| A page counter, and statistics gatherer! |
| See how little code it took to store page views, referrers, browsers, screen widths and even IP addresses about my readers | | From Database-driven examples, updated 28 Oct, 78170 views |
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| Limiting clickthroughs to one per IP address per day |
| One of the requirements from the banner ad system was to protect the clients from spiders and malicious users...and HTTP HEAD requests...and... | | From Dynamic content using ASP, updated 14 Jan, 77585 views |
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| Legal stuff you should know |
| What you are allowed to do with the downloaded version of this web site, and how anything that goes wrong is all your fault. ;-) | | From The CoverYourASP site, updated 19 Jan, 76200 views |
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| Run of site advertising - pay by clickthroughs, not impressions |
| Read about the amazing offer, and how I make CPC advertising work for you. | | From The CoverYourASP site, published 1 Oct, 76080 views |
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| Automatically reminding and deleting unconfirmed members |
| Another example of using the BrandNewDay( ) function - this time to search the database for unconfirmed members, and email them or delete them... | | From Database-driven examples, published 15 Jan, 74091 views |
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| Object Oriented Programming with JavaScript classes |
| JavaScript classes are cool - learn what they can do to tidy up your code... | | From Server-side JavaScript utilities, published 9 Dec, 68110 views |
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| Hiding debug information on your web pages |
| See how simple it is to hide helpful data on your web page to help you when debugging. | | From Dynamic content using ASP, published 23 Aug, 65717 views |
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| FileSystemObject serves you my source code. |
| The FileSystemObject object is a very powerful object that allows you to read or write to your servers hard disc…now download the whole site! | | From Getting started with ASP, updated 29 Sep, 64662 views |
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| I appreciate any links to CoverYourASP� |
| Apart from the affiliate sites that publish links to my articles there are a growing number of smaller sites that list me as an ASP reference. Thanks Guys! | | From The CoverYourASP site, published 11 Sep, 64095 views |
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| Generic function to walk through your sub-folders and files |
| Developed to index my pages for a search function, this article describes a function you can use for whatever you want! Also discusses recursion and passing functions as parameters. | | From Dynamic content using ASP, published 19 Jan, 62931 views |
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| IFRAME's...and IE 5.5 |
| Sometimes IFRAME's can solve a big problem, but their interaction with IE 5.5 is something you need to know about - it's totally bizarre! | | From HTML tips and tricks, published 21 Jun, 61703 views |
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| Caching and displaying contents of folders |
| This article shows how I cached data from the FileSystemObject into Application variables, sorted it and then used it to create a nice little file contents browser to display my newsletter archives. | | From Dynamic content using ASP, published 29 Mar, 61472 views |
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| Displaying foreign keys in your database as list boxes |
| My original database administration tool didn't look for foreign keys, and just displayed a confusing list of primary key values. Now, it's been improved with automatically generated list boxes... | | From Database-driven examples, published 23 May, 58991 views |
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| Part 1. A quick COM/ATL component for ASP |
| Using the ATL COM AppWizard it took less than 30 minutes to make this COM component - mind you, it doesn't do much� | | From COM components, published 3 Aug, 56324 views |
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| Web sites based on CoverYourASP's code |
| You realize by now that you can download the entire site, right? See others that have gone before you... | | From The CoverYourASP site, updated 15 Apr, 56089 views |
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| Rotating random content |
| How I rotate the affiliate banners and books around the site using a few arrays and a random number. | | From Dynamic content using ASP, updated 11 Sep, 55477 views |
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| Design web pages for any width screen! |
| How a little client-side script can make a huge difference in how your web site is perceived by customers with varying screen resolutions. | | From HTML tips and tricks, published 21 Jul, 53702 views |
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| What's CoverYourASP all about? |
| Read an overview of how this site works, places to visit and what makes it unique! | | From The CoverYourASP site, updated 19 Aug, 53312 views |
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| The CoverYourASP Privacy Policy |
| What information I gather about you, and how it is used... | | From The CoverYourASP site, published 1 Oct, 50786 views |
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| Displaying your records in columns |
| How do you display an unknown number of records evenly in columns, especially when they are to be read down the columns, not across the rows? Come and find out! | | From Dynamic content using ASP, published 21 Nov, 48844 views |
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| A little about me - James Shaw |
| Of course, this should soon be the most popular article on the site, eh? EH? Mum? | | From The CoverYourASP site, updated 15 Sep, 47541 views |
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| Displaying HTML files from your ASP page |
| Often I need to display the contents of a file on my server. This article shows you what regular expressions to use to successfully display HTML, including automatically making any hyperlinks live... | | From Dynamic content using ASP, published 15 Mar, 47320 views |
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| Fighting email abuse |
| I now help the authorities in tracking down people who cause sites like mine to send spam to others by subscribing them to my newsletter... | | From Email-related examples, published 9 Mar, 46451 views |
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| Formatting data with JavaScript |
| The beginnings of a library of functions that I'll use to format JavaScript data. So far: Currency and Date. | | From Server-side JavaScript utilities, updated 20 Oct, 45322 views |
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| Submitting data to a form with IP*Works! WebForm |
| ASPRSS has a subscription service that automatically submits articles to all the ASP directories out there. See how I submit the data to their forms using the IP*Works! WebForm component | | From Sharing my articles with XML, published 15 Jun, 43636 views |
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| Do my visitors wait until the pages are loaded? |
| I did a little investigation to see if my site was too slow to keep visitors interested. See what worked, and what didnt! | | From Dynamic content using ASP, published 2 Dec, 41105 views |
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| Moving the articles into my database, and administering them |
| How links to my articles were moved into my database, how I administer them (you can play with this - a little!), and how the hits are counted - now with Create/Delete Category, Delete article.. | | From Database-driven examples, updated 8 Oct, 40707 views |
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| Part 2. My should-be-hidden page to mail my newsletter! |
| The second part shows how I mail the subscribers to my newsletter, using just ASP and an Access database. Very easy, but effective! JMail/ASPMail now supported! | | From Email-related examples, updated 19 Oct, 40285 views |
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| How to move your site to a new domain |
| Have you ever created a website only to move all the pages to another domain? Check out the following article on how to make the transition a snap… | | From HTML tips and tricks, published 18 Sep, 33174 views |
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| Using expando properties to implement named recordsets |
| A mini-article to demonstrate how you can add properties to an object - in this case so we can add multiple recordsets and later reference them by name | | From Server-side JavaScript utilities, published 16 Dec, 30822 views |
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| The <a> tag - and its forgotten attributes |
| See how using the title and target attributes has real advantages for my readers - and for me. | | From HTML tips and tricks, published 21 Sep, 26306 views |
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| Administering the Application variables |
| Following earlier articles about how I cache data (such as the rotating banners) in Application variables for speed, many have asked how I refresh the cache when I've made a change. All is revealed... | | From Getting started with ASP, published 11 Apr, 20471 views |
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| Some sample statistics from my page counter |
| Just as a taster for what is possible, I have shown some examples of how the raw data from my page counter can be turned into useful statistics. I had no idea everyone ran in high resolution! | | From Database-driven examples, published 27 Oct, 20154 views |
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| Please help me design my new search facility - take the survey! |
| There are three proposals on how I will add searching to my web site - which one would you prefer? | | From Help me help you - take a survey!, published 26 Jan, 19349 views |
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| Feedback about 'Using <% %> correctly in ASP' |
| Some interesting comments from readers about the ASP render blocks article - emotions run wild! | | From Getting started with ASP, published 6 Oct, 17472 views |
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| An introduction to the RSS XML file on my site |
| See how I proposed the simple Form Submission Standard and ended up using XML and creating a brand new website that allows everyone to share their ASP articles. | | From Sharing my articles with XML, updated 21 Apr, 15379 views |
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| Support your favorite amateur ASP site (yes, I mean me) |
| If you ever feel that I've helped you out, and want to return the favor - now with snail-mail address... | | From The CoverYourASP site, updated 27 Dec, 14671 views |
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| Member Services |
| Membership services, including personalization and higher membership subscription levels | | From The CoverYourASP site, published 21 Jul, 13114 views |
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| CoverYourASP.com through the ages |
| Some history of CoverYourASP.com, or ShawThing.com as it used to be known! | | From The CoverYourASP site, published 11 Sep, 11146 views |
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| Why are there HTML articles on an ASP site? |
| I thought I might have to explain this one. Maybe it has something to do with the questions I get emailed� | | From HTML tips and tricks, published 21 Sep, 10673 views |
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| Part 2. What's wrong with the AppWizards code! |
| Where there's a Wizard, you'll usually find a reason not to use it. FrontPage anyone? The ATL COM AppWizard's not that bad, but you should still read this� | | From COM components, published 10 Aug, 760 views |
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