What Is an ASP File? Files created with Active Server Pages have the extension .ASP. This story is an example; take a look at the address above. With ASP files, you can activate your Web site using any combination of HTML, scripting such as JavaScript or Visual Basic?

Is It Hard to Use? I don't know about you, but whenever people start talking about doing things on the server, I start to get nervous. I think a lot about threading issues, synchronization, and generally stuff without a user interface. I assume it's going to be hard to do. Well, using ASP is about as easy as anything I've come across in years.

Aw, Mom. Not Another Object Model! I really hate doing this to you, but I'm going to have to use that overused and overcomplex term "object model" again. Here's how it works. When a browser requests an ASP file from your Web server, your Web server calls Active Server Pages to read through the ASP file, executing any of the commands contained within and sending the resulting HTML page to the browser.

Valentine's Day just happened only a couple days ago and as we speak many proud new owners of Motorola's hot new Pink RAZR V3 are grinning ear-to-ear while using their new phones. This year many Valentines gift seekers turned away in the opposite direction from the cliché chocolates & flowers, turned away from the balloons, and believe it or not, turned away from mail order stuffed bears. Instead, many Valentines shoppers bought their significant other the gift of a new Pink RAZR cell phone, many of which were "his and her" type gift ideas with many men opting for the new Blue RAZR phone, and to the delight of their partner, a new Pink RAZR. It is no accident that many Pink RAZR phones were sold on Valentines Day in pairs.

In the months leading up to Valentines the buzz over the pink phones continued to grow and grow and is expected by many in the wireless mobile device industry to be the number one selling phone of the year. The entire RAZR series of phones has had tremendous popularity over the past year, reportedly taking in maybe more than 30% of the 30+ million cell phones sold in the third quarter of 2005 ALONE! Motorola has released three different versions of the Pink RAZR cell phones, all three different shades of pink. The Cingular version of the phone fits in between the lighter version for Verizon Wireless and the magenta version for T-Mobile USA.