One way of personalizing a user's visit to a Web site is to greet a returning visitor by name. Some Web sites use stored user preference data to display a particular type of advertisement or to go directly to the Web page that the user most recently visited.
Using cookies is one way to record, store, and read this user data, and it is the most common method of doing so. Another, more complicated method uses a database connected to the Web site. This procedure will be discussed in a later lesson.

The lessons in this module on the uses of the ASP Request and Response objects, the code samples, and the exercises give you all the tools you need to put this capability into the TMania project Web site. You now know how to retrieve and reference user data from an HTML Form, how to create cookies and send them to the user, and how to read and display cookie data that you have previously created.
The next lesson concludes this module.

Click the Exercise link below to practice storing and retrieving information using cookies.
Course Project - Exercise