> When I started out, you could just copy HTML files up to your server and you had a website. It was magical! And PHP made it even better; you could just throw in a little snippet of server-side code and you had a dynamic page.
Well, you can still very much do this. Sure, it's not bleeding edge, but large chunks of the web (even newer sites) still do it this way and rely on PHP or sinilar server side languages.
> When I started out, you could just copy HTML files up to your server and you had a website. It was magical! And PHP made it even better; you could just throw in a little snippet of server-side code and you had a dynamic page.
Well, you can still very much do this. Sure, it's not bleeding edge, but large chunks of the web (even newer sites) still do it this way and rely on PHP or sinilar server side languages.