Re: Beginner asp tutorial required + dreamweaver or FP

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From: Stephanie Stowe (NoSpam_at_IWishICould.com)
Date: 10/26/04 

Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:23:40 -0400

"Colin Kingston" <ck1web@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:7ebb4555.0410250529.23960a0a@posting.google.com...
> Hi
>
> I have reasonable experience with access. I am just about to start a
> web based database project for my computer course.
>
> I have very very limited experience of frontpage, VB & VB script, I
> have no experience of ASP or dreamweaver.
>
> I have office xp pro and am in the process of buying and installing
> win xp pro. Is there anything else I need?
>
> Idealy I would like to download a simple working access / asp database
> to 'play' with and find a tutorial which takes me from a simple access
> db using it on the web. - any guidance for either of these would be
> appreciated.
>
> After my course project I would like to develop more web based
> databases. Should I make the effort to use and learn Dreamweaver now
> or should I use MS FP for the projest and learn DW later?
>

In my opinion, you should start out using neither, but code your HTML by
hand. MS FP is just plain awful (though I have not used it in several
versions). Dreamweaver is a nice layout tool. But its client-side code is
awful to maintain. Both sheild you from understanding the code you are
working with IMO. I sometimes use Dreamweaver to work on layout with tables
and whatnot, but I never ever ever use its automatically generated
client-side script.

If it were me, I would use Interdev or even Visual Studio.NET can be used to
write ASP classic. Or notepad works great too. I would bet others know of
decent cheap or free editors...

> Thanks Colin

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