Please help in web designing

[vijithamar]

hi
I am a VB6 application developer. now i got a chance to develop a simple Web site for an company.

Web site is for searching a product from a database
and display the details of it.

i would like to know which is th best language to develop a web-page. which databate is better and fast.(my data will be small in size).

i have visual studio.net 2003 with me. is this a good one to develop web-site?

and i like to know which operating system can i use.

if i am designing in visual studio.net. can i use linux server as my web server ?


Thanks
VijithAmar

 

[manarth]

A typical linux web server is LAMP - Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP.
Hence, PHP may be the best language for your linux server.

However, if you're familiar with VB, an ASP (vb-script) site will probably be easier for you to develop.

In this question, there are no right answers - but many conflicting opinions.

You will need to understand 3 main things:[ul]
[li]your webserver: apache linux / apache windows / IIS windows[/li]
[li]your database environment: Access + windows ODBAC / MS SQL + windows / MySQL linux / PostgreSQL linux / oracle / etc[/li]
[li]your scripting language: PHP / ASP / CFM / JSP[/li]
[/ul]

Each of these is a detailed topic in it's own right (and indeed most of these have their own forum here at Tek-Tips).

I hope this gives you an idea of the scope, and a good place to start your research!

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[vijithamar]

Thanks manarth... your reply gives me an overall idea about
the website developing.

Thanks & regards
VijithAmar