Mixing HTML and ASP code can be very difficult to maintain. Concatenating long strings in the code makes things difficult to read, and switching back and forth between ASP code and HTML can be very inefficient. Worst of all, you cannot use your HTML editor to edit the content presentation just as you usually do; you have to edit everything by hand. In this article we’ll see how to solve this issue using HTML templates.

If you have ever used Hotmail’s Rich Text Editor and wondered how they do it, then this article will shed some light on that. An IFrame works like a frame but lives within your page, thus creating inline frames. Without the need of applets or ActiveX, it’s possible to use that and create an online content editor that resembles and works like your favorite word editor.

Also known as Index Server, it catalogs your website, allowing your visitors to search against your content. This article goes through installing the Indexing Service on Windows 2000, pointing it to your web site, tuning it for speed and efficiency, showing you how to use it with some sample code against the ADO, and what to do if it fails.

The GetRows method of the ADO object is known to be the fastest way to fetch a recordset. By encapsulating the logic within a VBScript class, it’s possible to query your database and return your records to a local array in only 3 lines of code.