ASP Best Practices

The best practices presented here will help you develop Active Server Pages (ASP) applications with well-organized, secure directories and files, and with scripts that execute efficiently. Follow these guidelines to create ASP pages that are styled for consistency, readability, and ease of maintenance.

For best results, you should be familiar with the material in the IIS 5.0 online product documentation, especially the Building ASP Pages, and Developing Web Applications topics in the Active Server Pages Guide.

This appendix is presented as a sequence of topics that parallels the planning and development of an ASP authoring project. For information about developing software components, see Developing Web Applications in this book and in the IIS 5.0 online product documentation.

In this section:

• When to Use ASP

• Project Directories and Files

• Style Guide for Scripts in ASP Pages

• HTML Standards

• Scripting for Performance

• Additional Resources