Quick Start Guide

Web application terminology 229
The Dreamweaver development environment supports the following server
technologies:
■ Macromedia ColdFusion
■ Microsoft ASP.NET
■ Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP)
■ Sun Java Server Pages (JSP)
■ PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP)
You can also use the Dreamweaver coding environment to develop pages
for any other server technology not listed.
A static page is a web page that is not modified by an application server
before the page is sent to a browser. For more information, see “Processing
static web pages” on page 219.
A web application is a website that contains pages with partly or entirely
undetermined content. The final content of these pages is determined only
when a visitor requests a page from the web server. Because the final
content of the page varies from request to request based on the visitor’s
actions, this kind of page is called a dynamic page.
A web server is software that sends out web pages in response to requests
from web browsers. A page request is generated when a visitor clicks a link
on a web page in the browser, selects a bookmark in the browser, or enters a
URL in the browser’s address text box.
Popular web servers include Microsoft Internet Information Server,
Microsoft Personal Web Server, Apache HTTP Server, Netscape Enterprise
Server, and Sun ONE Web Server.