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Welcome to www.marcustucker.com!

Thanks for visiting. I am a UK-based web developer, specialising in ASP - a Microsoft server-side scripting technology which brings together HTML, VBScript/Jscript, and COM to provide dynamic web content generation capabilities.


What can ASP do for me?

Every page you see on this site is dynamically contructed at the instant you request it - sophisticated scripting behind the scenes retrieves page content from one XML data store and combines it with an XML-based page template, resulting in the pages that you see before you. Content can be edited from any location in the world at any time - all the administrator needs is an Internet connection and IE5+! Any changes made are instantly visible to anyone accessing the site. This is called a Content Management System (CMS), and can radically reduce the TCO of a web site.

ASP scripts can manipulate data from databases, XML, pages on other web sites, user-entered information, uploaded files, and any other source you can think of, and it all happens in real-time. The ability to deliver up-to-the-minute live data on every page hit lends itself to countless applications, such as:
    Dynamically generated Office documents - bills, receipts, invoices, reports, or any other type of Word/Excel/Access document can be generated on the fly from any information source and delivered to your clients, allowing them to store and process the information easily.

    Content Management Systems - mentioned above, this lets you manage web content through a browser-based WYSIWYG editor from anywhere in the world, changes being made live the moment the page is saved in the system. This approach to web site maintenance is labour and cost saving, and is rapidly becoming standard - it is ideal for sites which feature frequently changing content, such as e-zines, news pages, links pages, etc.

    E-Commerce - incorporate a fully featured e-commerce system into your site. ASP is an ideal platform for this, since it can be rapidly developed, supports SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption, and can integrate with the powerful SQL Server database engine to deliver fast, secure online purchasing to your clients.

    Security - site security features (such as remote administration, member services, data encryption/decryption, etc) can be custom written for your needs.

    Search facilities - by combining ASP code with Index Server technology, you can search all the HTML in your site, inside databases, text files, and even PDFs! Imagine the possibilities for business document management applications!