I always thought of ASP.Net as a tool that I would use if I was making
things such as designing my own bulleting-board web software, a blogger
type
of software etc. I don't usually think of ASP.Net for a regular site
such as
the
www.starbucks.com for example.
That's why I wanted to inquire a little more about Front Page and its
capabilities.
Thanks.
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Hello Rene,
If you're this clueless -- which you are -- you should get started with
Visual Web Developer and SQL Server Express [1] if you want to get
started
with web development -- or -- you should choose FrontPage if you just
want
to layout and publish some basic web pages.
The answer you got in the FrontPage newsgroup was misleading. ASP.NET
is
not a scripting language as you were miseld to mistakenly believe. Copy
and paste [2] into a textbox to search using Google or MSN and you'll
get
good defintions of what ASP.NET actually is. Read several definitions.
I recommend you do the work to learn C# when developing ASP.NET
applications as all web developers must master JavaScript and both C#
and
JavaScript share the same syntax and grammar. You'll soon be learning
C#
is used 'server-side' and JavaScript used 'client-side.' The difference
being client-side is when your web page needs dynamic funtionality when
the page is already loaded into the browser and server-side is
processed
on the web server which builds the page and sends it to the browser for
display.
I also recommend learning the C# programming language using a textbook
such as "C# A Programmer's Introduction" from Deitel & Deitel [3].
Once
you learn the C# language you can learn to start applying it by using
the
ASP.NET 2.0 QuickStarts [4].
This may be too much for you at the moment but save this reply to disk
for
reference and perhaps get started by learning some HTML and authoring
some
basic web page layouts -- there's thousands of tutorials around -- and
then come back to this advice when your ready to move forward to learn
web
development.
You've got a lot of challenging but rewarding hard work ahead of you.
Persevere.
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[1]
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/default.aspx
[2] definition: ASP.NET
[3] [
http://www.deitel.com |
http://www.prenhall.com/deitel/ ]
[4]
http://beta.asp.net/QuickStartv20/aspnet/default.aspx
I am totally clueless about Microsoft FrontPage and I would like to
know
if anyone could tell me if there are any particular benefits when using
FrontPage versus using ASP.Net
Thanks for your help.