Web Site Management

Whether your site is on an intranet or the Internet, the principles of providing content are the same. You place your Web files in directories on your server so that users can establish an HTTP connection and view your files with a Web browser. But beyond simply storing files on your server, you must manage how your site is deployed, and more importantly, how your site evolves. Today, an engaging Web site is seldom a static collection of pages. Most successful Web administrators are kept busy accommodating ever changing Web content.

In this section you will learn the basics of managing a Web site's infrastructure, from redirecting requests to dynamically altering Web pages.

This section includes:

About Web Site Management: An introduction to the process of organizing and managing Web sites.
Choosing an Authoring Tool: A conceptual overview of how to choose an authoring tool that meets your needs
Using ASP to Manage Web Site Content: An introduction to Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) and the ways in which it can help you manage your Web content.
Changing the Home Directory: Specifying the central location of your site.
Creating Virtual Directories: Adding directories to your site.
Redirecting Requests to a Directory: Forwarding browser requests to a new location.
Redirecting Requests to a Program: Forwarding browser requests to an application.
Enabling Content Expiration: Configuring settings for time-sensitive information.
Using Content Ratings: Rating the content of your site to help users avoid objectionable material.
Adding a Footer to Web Pages: Automatically insert a footer into each HTML page on your site.
Server-Side Includes: Inserting server commands into a Web page, which are processed after the page is requested but before it's sent to the browser.

This section does not contain information on:

The fundamentals of creating server–side scripts with ASP; see Active Server Pages.
Adding Web sites; see Web and FTP Sites.