[...]... DAY 17 Administering Your Store Remotely with ASPs 377 The IIS Administration Pages 378 Installing the Administration Pages 378 Securing the Administration Pages 379 Using the Administration Pages 384 Installing and Administering the IIS FTP Service 385 Uploading Files to Your Site Using FTP 387 xii Sams Teach Yourself E-Commerce Programming with ASP in 21 Days. .. and Giles at Xenote for providing the resources that allowed me to write Days 16 21 Also, thanks to my family for encouraging me to spend most of my waking hours on researching, programming, and writing A special thanks to my wife, Susan Lin, who has little interest in programming, but who spent hours proofreading hundreds of pages of my writing on programming in ASP Finally, a million thanks to all... completing the lessons that discuss database access If you need to learn SQL, I recommend that you buy the book Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 21 Days (ISBN: 0-672- 316 74-9) 2 Sams Teach Yourself E-Commerce Programming with ASP in 21 Days What Software Do I Need to Use This Book? To complete the lessons in this book, you’ll need access to a computer with a Microsoft Web server and a database At the very minimum,... DAY 14 Customizing the Shopping Experience 297 Retrieving the Existing User Settings 297 Creating mypage .asp 298 Showing Past Purchases 302 Advertising Items Your Customers Would Like 307 Updating the Users Table for Favorites 307 Building the favorites .asp Page 308 Building the savefavorites .asp Page 311 Updating the featured .asp Page 313 ... 408 DAY 18 Using Email from Active Server Pages 409 The Basics of Internet Mail 410 Configuring the SMTP Service 411 The Collaboration Data Objects for NT Server (CDONTS) 414 Sending Email from an ASP Page 415 The CDONTS Constants 417 Send Yourself Email on Errors 419 Sending New Users Email 4 21 Sending HTML Mail 423 Sending Batches...x Sams Teach Yourself E-Commerce Programming with ASP in 21 Days Using Database Authentication 276 Passing Security Information From Page to Page 285 Using Hybrid Authentication 287 Understanding How Basic Authentication Works 288 Forcing a Password Dialog to Appear 288 Decoding the AUTHORIZATION Header 290 Summary ... 313 Updating the default .asp Page 315 Summary 316 Q&A 316 Workshop 317 Quiz 317 Exercise 317 WEEK 2 In Review 319 Bonus Project 320 Creating a Transactional Customer Feedback Form 320 WEEK 3 At A Glance DAY 15 Securing Your Store 323 325 Registering Your Own Domain 326 Domain Names and Marketing ... DAY 16 Debugging Your E-Commerce Applications 345 Keeping Your Development and Production Systems Separate 346 Creating a Second IP Address 347 Creating a Second Web Site 349 Deploying Your Application Using Visual InterDev 350 Debugging Your Application Using Visual InterDev’s Integrated Debugger 354 Getting Ready to Debug 355 Debugging a Site 357 Debugging... 493 DAY 21 Promoting Your Site and Managing Banner Advertising 495 Search Engines 496 How Do They Work? 496 What’s the Best Way to Get Listed? 496 Web Rings 508 Try It Out! 508 Banner Ads 510 Link Exchanges 510 Paying for Banner Ads 513 Participating in Reward Programs 513 Other Ways to Increase Revenue... book, Sams Teach Yourself E-Commerce Programming with ASP in 21 Days, is an example of a component The component has certain methods that determine what you can do with it For example, you can read the book, use it as a doorstop, or (please don’t do this!) tear it into shreds The book has certain properties It weighs a certain amount and has a certain number of pages Finally, it has a collection of key . 211 Q&A 211 Workshop 212 Quiz 212 Exercise 212 D AY 10 Checking Out 213 Understanding Transactions 213 ASP Page Transactions 214 ADO Transactions 218 Database Transactions 219 viii Sams Teach. buy the book Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 21 Days (ISBN: 0-672- 316 74-9). 01 0672 318 989 intro 3/30/00 8:20 AM Page 1 2 Sams Teach Yourself E-Commerce Programming with ASP in 21 Days What Software. USA 2 01 West 10 3rd St., Indianapolis, Indiana, 46290 USA Stephen Walther Jonathan Levine E-Commerce Programming with ASP in 21 Days Teach Yourself 00 0672 318 989 fm 3/30/00 8 : 21 AM Page i Sams Teach