What do you run a large web page with

Coyote

Right i am trying to find out how you would bulid a large web page which would lists of places to stay and places to see. it would be large web page and would need to be easy to update with new info and to change the old info, with mabey a set lay out which would use info in a datebase mabey ?

would you be best useing ASP pages CGI or what you think.

Lump

You should be thinking small for a webby, think of the people that only have 36 K modems, and about the update id say ASP.


John

Bard

ASP - definitely.

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Coyote

I do not mean large pages, I mean a large web site. and how do you design a www page in ASP (macromedia Drumbeat ?) what is the best way to set it up and run it? any ideas on the best way to do it would be great

Coyote

Ok what is the best way to Run a site, the site needs to be easy to update the info like changeing telphone number address. the other thing is to make it so there is a standed page with just the change of info so i do nto have to make 500 pages just enter the info for the pages is this beter done when the person is looking at the page or (which i think) haveing all the pages premade and just changeing them when the info changes. by the look of it ASP is the way to go but anyone know a good learning page for ASP, Mabey the pages should just be .html and have a program to change the info and them upload them to the server ? and what would be the cost of hosting a page like that, i know it would cost more if it got a lot of hits but just the base cost like.

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Bard

www.learnasp.com
www.15seconds.com
www.4guysfromrolla.com
www.aspin.com

Some starting points.

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Coyote

Thanks for the links, I will be useing ASP as i know VB best. but do you make your web site in ASP or do you jsut open the pages you want linked to the datebase ?
and where is the best place to learn ASP ?

Coyote

Kali

you'd want to check your server first and what it has installed before you go doing anything and what db you'll be accessing.. saying "ASP definitely" doesnt help if its an apache server without mod_asp, and you'll also need to know what db server is running.
for a large page anyway server side scripting is the only way..

checkout http://databasecentral.com/ for a huge list of tutorials.

easy choice: if you are familiar with VB then use ASP if your more used to Perl than use PHP

a few links about connecting to db's using php:
http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/DB_Basics/
http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/Administration/Database/
http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/1998/01/note/

podgeen

if your on a unix server
go with perl
you can have perl scripts to create the html pages and the cgi scripts
perl is quite simple to learn if you have anyprogramming knowledge at all www.programmingtutorials.com