We're crazy about Technology, so you don't have to be...

But incase you care, this page will explain how we use web technologies to build our web pages. We also want to show how using these technologies building dynamic web pages can be easy and information can be easily updated. The idea is that the content should be seperate from the design and we'll explain how this is done.

Cascading Style Sheets

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a tool for easily appling style (fonts, colors, layout, etc.) to web pages. How it works is that every page can have a linked "style sheet" that gives information on how it should be displayed. This allows the page to only worry about the content and the style sheet to explain how the content should be displayed.

The easiest way to show this is through example, so click here to see this page without a style sheet. Or check it out with the sidebar moved to the left. Or even check it out in a shade of red.

By using style sheets you can easily change the look of the website without touching the content. This also makes content changes easier beacuse all of the styling is taking out of the document with content in it.

PHP

PHP is a server side scripting language. It allows you to collect data from users and use databases to show dynamic content. The web server does all the work, which means people can view PHP pages without any special software, all they need is a web browser.