ASP.NET vs FrontPage vs Dreamweaver

[Zygor]

I would value your opinions on the following matter. I am in the enviable position of choosing which program I am going to use, and I will recieve training in that choice.

I have never done any web designing.

I am trying to balance my learning curve and my professional advancement against giving the company what it wants in a timely manner.

I know VBA for Excel and for Access very well and I enjoy creating programs in both. I recently purchased VB.NET 2003 for my personnel use and I'm just starting some tutorials. I see a big (but not insurmountable) difference in the VB I've used and VB.NET. I assume the same level of difference for ASP.NET.

I am going to need to have interactive Web pages that retrieve (and possibly update) data from various databases (Access and Oracle).

I am asking your thoughts on which would be my best choice. I'm not sure what questions I should even be asking.

Thank you in advance for your thoughts.

 

[vbkris]

Basic Difference

ASP.NET(using VS) - Coding
Dreamweaver - Design


in .NET a huge advantage is coding is separated from design. so u could design the entire page in Dreamweaver and write code in ASP.NET after desinging it.

i would not ask u to use FrontPage (even if it is for basic HTML coding)...

Known is handfull, Unknown is worldfull

 

[Zygor]

vbkris,

Thank you for your response.

I have a question for you. You said one could design in Dreamweaver and write code in ASP.NET after designing it. Is there a big advantage in designing in Dreamweaver rather than designing in ASP.NET? Don't both have that ability to drag and drop (for instance) a textbox onto the design grid, then double click to go behind the sceens and write code?

 

[bassguy]

Here is my 2 bits,

If you are just building brochure wear and it is not your permanent gig to build websites, frontpage is fine it is very good for people with little or no knowledge of coding html. If you are trying to do anything more complex than click here to go there it can become difficult in that you have to do a lot of the coding yourself by hand.

Now if you are going to be making database driven web applications with data input, searching, sorting, etc. you should go with visual studio. It allows you to use full blown programming languages in several flavors. the primary difference in the pages is that in Front page the code is inline and is interpreted so you only have one web page. In Visual studio you have 2 pages the web page and a "Code Behind" page. The Code behind is where the logic happens.

as for the suggestion of building the pages with dream weaver and doing the coding with VS I have never tried that but I will say that the Visual studio IDE does have some "quirks" that basically among programmers mean never go into design mode

hth

bassguy

 

[vbkris]

>> Don't both have that ability to drag and drop (for instance) a textbox onto the design grid, then double click to go behind the sceens and write code?

Yes they do, but the level at which they do is different, while VS.NET is aims more at .NET programming DW focusses on Html / Dhtml programming (also the code it outputs is cross browser compatible in 99% of the cases).

so i do the basic html / dhtml programming in Dreamweaver. this gets me the capability to serve some dummy pages to the client so that they can have the look and feel of the page. if they ask me to go ahead then i start the coding in ASP.NET which falls under the domain of VS.NET(but i use DW for this too!!!)...

Known is handfull, Unknown is worldfull

 

[AGIMA]

I second the motion with vbkris.

We also do our design/modification in DW and use VS to do all the coding stuff.

I personally dont think that there is a better way to do it, and let me tell you ive tried.



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