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ASP SEO friendly URLs

Posted last year, mid-September by Dave.
Categories: SEO, ASP, VBScript, Snippets.
Post Views: 1,249 Views.

One of the down sides to ASP is not being able to make SEO friendly URLs with out the need for server components. PHP can do with use of the .htaccess file. When ASP was first thought up by Microsoft the need for SEO friendly URLs wasn’t high on the list of needs. SEO wasn’t what it is today, a key to making a site successful. With the introduction of the .NET platform saw the end of development on the ASP platform. Which left web developers in a tight spot, either they install a server component (example: custom or pre built ISAPI filters) or they had to find creative ways to get around this issue.

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301 Redirect ASP

Posted last year, mid-April by Dave.
Categories: ASP, VBScript, Snippets.
Post Views: 898 Views.

Below is the code for preforming a 301 Moved Permanently Redirect using ASP VBScript.

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ASP - VBScript - Time based message

Posted last year, at the start of March by Dave.
Categories: ASP, VBScript, Snippets.
Post Views: 712 Views.

Displaying a message based on time of day (more…)

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ASP - VBScript - Simple textfile hit counter

Posted last year, at the start of March by Dave.
Categories: ASP, VBScript, Snippets.
Post Views: 491 Views.

A simple text file (poor man’s database) based hit counter (more…)

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ASP - VBScript - Welcome Cookie

Posted last year, at the start of March by Dave.
Categories: ASP, VBScript, Snippets.
Post Views: 3,216 Views.

The following VBScript snippet will write a cookie based Welcome Message and count the number of times they have visited. (more…)

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Tips and Tricks - QueryStrings

Posted last year, at the end of February by Dave.
Categories: ASP, VBScript, Snippets.
Post Views: 410 Views.

Say for example you have a database driven page and the right page is being displayed using QuertStrings to pass the page name like so ‘www.yourdomain.com/index.asp?page=home’. But you dont like the ‘page=’ part you can always do the following:
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Send ASP emails via GMAIL

Posted last year, at the end of February by Dave.
Categories: ASP, VBScript, Snippets.
Post Views: 2,714 Views.

Below is the code to send an ASP email via GMail’s SMTP servers. Some websites are trying to sell this (one website I found is selling it for $4.95!), but Im showing you for free. I will code a better looking one with a submit form, so watch this space. Enjoy!
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Sending Emails

Posted last year, at the end of February by Dave.
Categories: ASP, VBScript, Snippets.
Post Views: 400 Views.

Sending a text e-mail: (more…)

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