Tom Rowe

[Destin_FL]

Hey Tom or other expert.....

You were helping me earlier with my "advanced concept, will Frontpage do this or
not" question. Somehow or another I lost the frappin' thread in my Outlook
Express! .....or I would have added this to that....

Oh well.... I have another question for you; if I'm going to start learning and
trying to use ASP and that Frontpage Database thing, do I have to have IIS
installed on my machine? Which means I need to upgrade to XP Pro, right, or
no....??

Thanks a million!

Tim

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Yes, you will need to upgrade to Windows XP Pro. Also keep in mind that will
need to be hosted on Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 server, as well.

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[Destin_FL]

Yeah, I went out looking for Windows hosts, as you suggested earlier, and was
sad to find that my all-time always perfect ABAC.com doesn't. So I think I've
decided on Applied Innovations, appliedi.net - $24.95/month, SQL database,
blah blah blah...

I really appreciate our help. I have to admit, I am scared to death about
learning ASP and databases. I know every web designer worth his salt has to be
adept at databases and dynamic content; I know I have to suck it up and learn
this stuff. But man, I wonder how hard it's going to be...?

I went to Amazon earlier to look through the beginner ASP books, but of course
there must be 800 of them!!

Any tips? I know you don't have all night to spend on me, but if you think of
something off the top of your head, I'd sure be grateful.

Tim


Yes, you will need to upgrade to Windows XP Pro. Also keep in mind that will
need to be hosted on Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 server, as well.

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[Thomas A. Rowe]

The best I can tell you is to download some sample ASP applications and look
at the code.

http://www.ycoln-resources.com/resources/asp/news.asp?id=1

Note: Every ASP Developers, tends to code differently.

I can not recommend any books, as I do not own any books relating to
ASP/VBScript or FP for that matter.

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[Tom Miller]

The webmonkey section of http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/ includes
some good intro articles using ASP with Access (or whatever). The author
does the code in VBScript. There is a "1st Database" article, etc. Its
under the "programming" menu... You can print the articles and make it into
a book...
Tom
"> I really appreciate our help. I have to admit, I am scared to death
about

 

[Tom Miller]

Dynamic server pages..... hmmm. I have 1 other comment. On ASP scripts
prior to the ASP .NET system, it is possible to hang the entire IIS
webserver. So there are 2 things: 1) Test the .asp pages VERY throughly in
a test/non-production environment. 2) Consider using a scripting language
that doesn't hang the entire server when a script fails. (eg. Php or
perhaps even Perl). I got the information about ASP being able to hang a
W2K IIS server from a content provider (hosting site). I haven't ever used
ASP myself.
Tom

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

It all depends on how the host has configured their servers.

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