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Tag Archives: interactive websites
Making Money From Home with Membership Sites
If you have a lot of knowledge in a particular area, or if you are dedicated to becoming the expert in a particular area, or even if you are good at pulling the right experts together, you can create a membership site. Or better yet, you just have to build a community around members who are interested in talking about the same topic. Once your community gets big enough and has enough valuable information to make it a ‘members only’ community, you can start charging a monthly subscription.
Making Money Building Web Applications
Last week I posted an article about 10 ways to make money from home (or anywhere) with your computer. Number 2 on that list was ‘Web Applications’, which is what I want to discuss today.
Web applications can be the hardest way to get started and take the most money, but can be one of the most profitable. Basically, a web application is a website which provides a service to the user. Facebook would be a good example. Other examples are LinkedIn, MyOutdoorCalendar, CatalogOfDreams, and Dropbox. These are websites, but they deliver more than just information – they allow you to interact with them and they provide you with a service. Until recently, the only way to use software applications like these, was on your local hard drive on your own computer.
Posted in building websites, on living your dreams, on technical stuff, online business, wealth
Tagged building websites, dynamic websites, home-based businesses, interactive websites, make money, money, online business, starting a business, startup businesses, web applications, web development, websites
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Updating Your Web Page Without Refreshing the Page
Hopefully, after reading some of my latest posts, it’s very clear that visitors to your site are actually seeing your web page on their local computer.
The page may have been built on the fly at your hosting server using PHP and MySQL and then downloaded to the user’s computer, but by the time the visitor sees the page, it’s on their local computer.
Javascript code in the page may be making the web page more dynamic as well, but the user’s browser is handling the Javascript dynamics.
Since the user is viewing your web page on their local computer, any updates that need to be made to the page requiring PHP and/or MySQL must happen at the server level. This means that something on the page, such as a button or a link, must send another request to the server for the updated information. This used to require a page refresh.
The click of a link or a button would send the message to the server that another page was needed from the server. It might have been the same page with new, updated information, but as far as the server was concerned, it was a new page.
In other words, once the page has been built and sent to the user’s local computer, the only way to interact with the server is to send another request. This used to mean that the user’s browser would send the request and receive a new response to show a new page.
With advances in technology, advances in the languages that we now use for web development, and advances in our web browsers, it’s now possible to update specific sections of a page without refreshing the entire page. This has allowed web developers to create web ‘applications’ instead of just web ‘pages’. Web applications look and behave more like applications that you would run on your local computer. This new technology is called Ajax – Asynchronous Javascript and XML Continue reading
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Tagged ajax, building websites, computers, dynamic websites, interactive websites, javascript, php, programming, servers, web browser, web development, XML
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How to Make Your Websites Interactive
As web development evolved, websites not only became better looking, but they also became more functional and interactive. More and more forms were being added so that not only could you find information, but you could send information as well. You didn’t just ‘read’ a website anymore, you could communicate with it. These new technologies opened the doors for shopping carts and ecommerce.
This interactivity required more than just HTML (structure) and CSS (style). Now, we needed languages that could make our pages more dynamic by adding in real time information or more interactive by processing and responding to the information that we could now enter into the forms. Continue reading
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Tagged building websites, HTML, interactive websites, php, programming, servers
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