Where can I find a dead-simple explanation of MVC?

Question

At my company we\'re about to build a new site using ASP.NET MVC. My boss (marketing guy) would like to know some more about the technology so I\'ve tried to find a really g

Answer 1

The marketing guy would just be interested in the "V" part, the View. Depending on how you design things, the View would just be basic HTML/CSS "templates" that the marketing person could modify. Technically without breaking anything.

Ideally the Model (database) and Controller (logic) shouldn't care if the View (presentation) is XML, HTML, text, etc. The marketing person shouldn't care what the Model and Controller do, except for requesting additional functionality.

Going further with the "ideal", you should technically be able to replace ASP with PHP, Java, Ruby, etc as the Controller without touching the Model or View.