http://cindycullen.com Living Your Dreams Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:56:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://cindycullen.com/updating-your-web-page-without-refreshing-the-page/2010/08/22/ http://cindycullen.com/updating-your-web-page-without-refreshing-the-page/2010/08/22/#comments Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:34:15 +0000 Cindy http://cindycullen.com/?p=620 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 →]]> http://cindycullen.com/updating-your-web-page-without-refreshing-the-page/2010/08/22/feed/ 2 http://cindycullen.com/how-to-make-your-web-pages-dynamic/2010/08/14/ http://cindycullen.com/how-to-make-your-web-pages-dynamic/2010/08/14/#comments Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:50:30 +0000 Cindy http://cindycullen.com/?p=608 Continue reading →]]> http://cindycullen.com/how-to-make-your-web-pages-dynamic/2010/08/14/feed/ 0 http://cindycullen.com/how-to-make-your-websites-interactive/2010/08/12/ http://cindycullen.com/how-to-make-your-websites-interactive/2010/08/12/#comments Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:14:43 +0000 Cindy http://cindycullen.com/?p=599 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 →]]> http://cindycullen.com/how-to-make-your-websites-interactive/2010/08/12/feed/ 0 http://cindycullen.com/how-websites-started/2010/07/28/ http://cindycullen.com/how-websites-started/2010/07/28/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:03:39 +0000 Cindy http://cindycullen.com/?p=540 my other blog - just starting it so there's not much there yet. Continue reading →]]> http://cindycullen.com/how-websites-started/2010/07/28/feed/ 1 http://cindycullen.com/i-think-im-in-love-with-code/2010/07/23/ http://cindycullen.com/i-think-im-in-love-with-code/2010/07/23/#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:04:11 +0000 Cindy http://cindycullen.com/?p=513 Continue reading →]]> http://cindycullen.com/i-think-im-in-love-with-code/2010/07/23/feed/ 1 http://cindycullen.com/what-do-you-do-again/2010/07/21/ http://cindycullen.com/what-do-you-do-again/2010/07/21/#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:49:26 +0000 Cindy http://cindycullen.com/?p=488 here. 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