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HQS is ready to make your website dynamic and interactive.

You've been to Web stores that help you look through large catalogs and purchase items with a "shopping cart." How do they do that? The basic tools are programs to act on your instructions and database management systems to store and retrieve information about the things they offer and the input you provide.

This is a simple example of an interactive page. It uses a programming language named PHP and a database management system named MySQL. These both run on computers where the web pages and the data are stored - they do not require any special help from the visitor's web browser. This is an advantage for websites that are intended to serve the widest possible audience.

Step One - Choose a color

What background color would you like to see on the tables in this demonstration? When you submit the form below, the current page will be redisplayed with the color you select.

Step Two - Select a user name and password

Now that you have selected a color, you may save your choice in the demonstration database. If the user name you enter matches an existing entry, the password must also match. In that case, the color you have selected this time will replace your previous selection. If the user name is new, it will be added to the database.
User name:
Password: