New site designer needs advice

[Rapier]

Greetings! I would like to design a website for a home-based business. I am a WinNT Server 4.0 administrator and have some Visual Basic 5.0 experience, but absolutely NO website design knowledge. <br>
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I'd like any and all information that you kind people would care to share with me. I'd need to register a domain name, find a decent host, the WORKS. I figured I'd ask first, so that maybe some of you could steer me away from common pitfalls.<br>
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Thanks!

 

[tanderso]

I suggest against using ASP. Better to use CGI. Learn Perl.

http://www.perl.com,

http://www.perl.org

Sincerely,

Tom Anderson
CEO, Order amid Chaos, Inc.

http://www.oac-design.com

 

[iza]

or learn php (i find it easier than perl)

 

[JohnVogel]

tanderso,

What reasons do you have for suggesting against ASP?

John Vogel

http://johnvogel.homepage.com

http://www.computerwiz.net

 

[tanderso]

John, it's a decent model I guess, but NT servers are slower than snails and ASP doesn't work well, if at all, on other webservers. If you like the way ASP works, try PHP as I believe it is inline like ASP. There is also an inline Perl which might be interesting. However, for flexibility and power, go with the trusty C compiler or Perl interpreter. Mod-perl, the integrated Apache server and Perl interpreter is even better for speed. You can output HTML directly from the program rather than trying to parse both HTML and program together. It also makes for cleaner code IMHO.
Sincerely,

Tom Anderson
CEO, Order amid Chaos, Inc.

http://www.oac-design.com