5 Things You Can Do With ASP
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So what can you do with ASP?
Form Validation
Have you ever filled out a Contact Form via a website and been greeted with a message telling you that you must fill out your email address in order to submit the form? That’s called form validation, and it’s a really cool feature you can add to any form on your website. For business websites, this is an important tool to assure you get the information you need to follow up on sales leads, contact the right people with the right information, and keep up to date with your client’s emails, phone numbers, and addresses. Using ASP makes adding form validation easy. There are many great tutorials online that you can choose from, all completely free!
Cookies
Cookies are a really great tool if you’d like to add a personalized touch to your visitors or track their behaviors on your site. Cookies are basically just very small files you can attach to any user’s computer on the web via a simple script. You can use this ASP script to say “Hello John” when John logs into his control panel, to recall a login when a user signs in for the second time of the day, or to track a customer from their first click on your site to their purchase on your order page. For example, we use cookie tracking in our Affiliate Program – in this case, the cookie is attached to the user’s browser and tracks each click to their link and sale they refer to Lunarpages. Adding cookies with ASP can be a valuable solution for social networking sites, major ecommerce ventures, and even personal websites.
Ad Rotation & Management
Are you running a large website and selling adspace? Ever wonder how big websites rotate their ads so easily and manage their advertisers so easily? Well, now you can add that functionality to your own site with a simple ASP Ad Rotation script. This means that you can sell advertising space on your own site and maintain who gets rotated when and for how long. This can mean the difference between a mediocre site with several cluttered banners jumbled together or a successful company that can manage their ads in an professional manner.
Printer-Friendly Pages
When printing websites offline, printers are not always able to properly format the pages, and so you could end up with one page full of sidebar banners, another with text from the header of the page and the web address, and yet another for the actual content. Especially if there is important information that you’d like your visitors to be able to easily print, adding a Printer-Friendly Page script with ASP will ease the frustration. You can send your visitors to a printable map, directions, recipe, or just about anything.
Username Suggestion
If your name is John Smith, you’ve probably often had this problem. You’ve hit submit on a form to get a username for a popular social networking site. You get an error in bolded red letters that says, “Username Taken”. It doesn’t offer you any suggestions, and now you have to wonder if “SmithJohn” is also taken. This kind of guessing game could take forever and cause a great deal of frustration for your visitors, unless you install a username suggestion script that can help your customers come up with popular alterations of available usernames directly related to their searches.
These are only 5 cool things you can do with ASP, and there are tons more! Do a simple search in Google for free ASP scripts and see what you can find, or post on LunarForums and see what our own Lunartics have come up with for all your ASP needs.
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