Technologies We Use

There are a number of different, but heavily interrelated, technologies used to produce websites. Some are used on virtually every website, while others are used only under special circumstances. As a general matter, it is very unlikely that you would ever need to know anything about what technologies are used to develop your website. Some of the technologies are so far "under the hood" that you should never have to worry about them at all.

We provide the following guide to the alphabet soup of web development just in case you're curious:

(X)HTML

- XHTML is expected to be the future of HTML, the standard language used for web pages. At Castorid, we make every effort to ensure that the web pages we create for you conform to XHTML specifications, even though standard...   read more

PHP

- We use PHP as our standard technology for dynamic and content-managed web pages. PHP is a free open-source scripting language that runs on both Unix-based and Windows servers. As a result, websites implemented in PHP can be...   read more

ASP.NET

- We use ASP.NET for dynamic and content-managed web pages for clients whose sites need to run on Windows Server platforms that do not have PHP installed. ASP.NET is an exciting technology from Microsoft that allows rapid...   read more

JavaScript/AJAX

- JavaScript is a computer programming language that runs in the browser on the user's computer rather than on the server. It is used to make drop-down menus appear, to cause images to change when the mouse moves...   read more

CSS

- CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets, is the primary technology in use today for determining what a website looks like, as opposed to what it says. HTML defines the content and logical structure of a webpage, while CSS defines its...   read more