VBScript for Not Yet Techies 2

"Computer Careers: High Tech Jobs Designing Smart Interactive Web Pages the Microsoft Way"

by Richard Stooker, President Info Ring Press and author of Secrets of Changing to a Computer Career

VBScript is often used for filling out forms on web sites.

VBScript processes the information given by the prospect to inform or entertain them, and collects the information for your later use, such as sending it to an online database. VBScript makes web sites interactive.

It is used differently from Visual Basic, but it is related. That’s why the initials "VB" are there in front of the script part. VBScript was developed by Microsoft, the inventors of Visual Basic, to provide a cross-platform language for the Internet. That is, a language that could be used by anyone using any kind of computer.

VBScript was basically developed to compete with JavaScript, which pretty much does the same things

JavaScript is currently the most common, but that could change. VBScript is gaining in popularity, although some web developers consider it superfluous since JavaScript already exists.

If you are already familiar with Java or C++ from your computer career, JavaScript will be easiest for you to learn. If you already know Visual Basic, it will be easier for you to learn.

If you have a computer job designing webs for a controlled, corporate intranet environment where you know every user will be using Internet Explorer, and especially if you will want to use Microsoft’s Active X technology, you should use it. On the Internet itself, JavaScript is still probably the best choice.

In recent years, many browsers did not support it, but this is not as much of a concern now.

What should be a concern to you if your web site is a business, is that having it on your site will do two adverse things.

It will slow down loading time. This is bad because prospects will become impatient and go to another site. Surveys indicate that slow-loading web sites is one of the most common complaints people have about surfing the web.

The other problem is that having it on your web site could adversely affect search engine placement.

If your web site is not one of the top web sites under your important key words, it may as well not exist, because prospects will never find it.

So, my advice for those of you in business is, leave it off your home page, but use it where it adds value to your site deeper inside, especially for product and customer support.

If you want to start a career in web development/design or almost anything to do with the Internet, either VBScript or JavaScript are important languages to learn.

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