Developing Web Applications

Design Patterns for Web Applications

Web application developers may find that the model used by applications on the Web conflicts with the conceptual model they have developed for other platforms. For instance, unless you use client-side ActiveX controls or Java applets, your user interface is limited to an HTML description of the form inputs or a list of links to other areas of your site. Despite the availability of DHTML and ASP, most Web-based applications will never consist of more than an interconnected series of dynamically generated static states. Click a button and something happens. Click a link and a new page appears.

The final topics of this section explore effective Web-application design, and cover a variety of techniques that you can use to enhance your applications.

See the following:

Factoring Your Application
Using Forms for Input
Redirection