How much of web development happens on the server or by the host?
I am wanting to get beyond simply writing html code and designing nice looking pages and I want to learn more abotu content rich, dynamic, database driven websites.
I have heard that if you want to have dynamic material on your site a lot of it depends on your host and your hosts server. Like if you want to run cold fusion programming that your server must support it. Or if you want to use perl, php, server sife includes.
I don’t even know what much of that really means. This is what I want to learn about.
Specifically, I want to know right now how much of dynamic content is actually dependent on the host.
I would like to use sql for my database as that is what I have edited in the past. Does my host and server need to know this? Do they need to do anything for this to work and will they charge extra?
But what exactly is backend? What is application framework. I have na idea and I have heard these terms dozens of times but its never been explained- even by IT professionals. I want to learn this stuff but no one is willing to TALK about it. Yes, I can pick up a book ( I have and will regarding web developing). But I want to hear some of backend developing 101 from a person willing to explain it in plain english.
What does it mean by the example style definition given below and what are the pros and cons of doing this from dynamic content generation perspective?
