I should add, the sort of issues mentioned above don't really enter into the sort of web programming done at the Annexe (and I would think at Mudcat) as I never get that close to the operating system, or even if I did it would almost certainly be at the server side.

The game, at least with the Annexe, is to try to ensure that you have your data going into and out of a (hopefully) reasonably well organised database. The scripts interact with the database and the aim is to churn out HTML for the users to view and interact with on thier browers. My pages at the server side generally contain a mix of plain HTML and some VB script, some of which outputs HTML using "Response.Write" and other parts are just the programming logic.

As an example, I could have something like:

For I = 1 to 10 Response.Write I & "<br>" Next

When a user requests the page, the server will interpret that and the user would get sent a page that contained the numbers 1 to 10, one number per line.

Jon