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Tip 8—Run IIS 6.0 (If Only for Kernel Caching) If you’re not running IIS 6.0 (Windows Server™ 2003), you’re missing out on some great performance enhancements in the Microsoft Web server. In Tip 7, I talked about output caching. In IIS 5.0, a request comes through IIS and then to ASP.NET. When caching is involved, [...]
Tip 4—ASP.NET Cache API One of the very first things you should do before writing a line of application code is architect the application tier to maximize and exploit the ASP.NET Cache feature. If your components are running within an ASP.NET application, you simply need to include a reference to System.Web.dll in your application project. [...]
Tip 1:Return Multiple Resultsets Review your database code to see if you have request paths that go to the database more than once. Each of those round-trips decreases the number of requests per second your application can serve. By returning multiple resultsets in a single database request, you can cut the total time spent communicating [...]
This section describes how to use the <EMBED …> tag to embed plugins into the web page. Plugins are a tricky but sometimes useful way to add special features to your web page. Source: htmlcodetutorial
Document tags define the overall structure of an HTML document. There are four tags every HTML document should have. These tags define the what type of document it is, and the major sections. These tags are <HTML>, <HEAD>, <TITLE>, and <BODY …>. You may also wish to use the <!DOCTYPE …> declaration under some circumstances. [...]
There is a great deal of information on CSS all over the web. Since it’s a reasonably open web development methodology with lots of options this can quickly lead to confusion and frustration. We are providing you with a basic tutorial of how CSS works and why you might want to start using it. The [...]
The tags on this page define different ways of saying “ignore this”. These tags either tell the browser to ignore sections of code, or to treat the code as plain text, not as HTML. Unfortunately, not only is HTML not completely standard, the methods of ignoring HTML is not standard. Of the five tags on [...]
An applet is a miniature program that you embed right into your web page. Applets themselves are not written in HTML… they are separate programs written in a language called Java. Placing an applet in your page is like putting a little window in the middle of the page, and one of these Java programs [...]
Although there is no requirement for XHTML 1.0 documents to be compatible with existing user agents, in practice this is easy to accomplish. Guidelines for creating compatible documents can be found in Appendix C. 5.1. Internet Media Type XHTML Documents which follow the guidelines set forth in Appendix C, “HTML Compatibility Guidelines” may be labeled with [...]
This section is informative. Due to the fact that XHTML is an XML application, certain practices that were perfectly legal in SGML-based HTML 4 [HTML4] must be changed. 4.1. Documents must be well-formed Well-formedness is a new concept introduced by [XML]. Essentially this means that all elements must either have closing tags or be written in [...]