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.

 

[TruthInSatire]

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

then how should we know what questions to answer?

How's "42" sound?

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.

 

[vacunita]

Database interaction between Access is obviously simpler using ASP built in fucntions but for Oracle i believe you can acomplish more through other languages such as PHP.
The other thing you wan't to consider is what your target is, are you going to rely on your users having a scripting language such as Javasscript enviromente installed for your pages to display correctly or do you want to keep it all Server side.

Without any more info,there is not much more we can say.
What is your goal, your requirements etc...

 

[Zygor]

TruthInSatire-
Thanks for sharing all your knowledge. Perhaps I may be of assistance to you someday.

Vacunita-
On a serious note. Thank you for your response. I will look into PHP. As for my target, we all have the same setup, so I am under the impression that if it displays correctly on one, it would display correctly on all. Perhaps I have missed the point.

 

[vacunita]

So this is basically for internal use Only.
Nothing that you develop will go out to be used by people not in your company. i.e. through the internet?

If that is the case then it really comes down to expense.
You have to determine what the company needs. And if it is willing to pay hundreds of dollars for the .NET framework you'll need for ASP .Net programming or if it would rather pay less than 100 dollars for a Dreamweaver license. For you to develop on.

ASP.NET is more of a developer language. Frontpage and Dreamweaver however are design tools with programming capabilities. So one thing really is incomparable with the other two.

 

[TruthInSatire]

TruthInSatire-
Thanks for sharing all your knowledge. Perhaps I may be of assistance to you someday.

I doubut it. After all, I know the answer to life, the universe and everything. lol, good retort.

since you're a good sport i'll actualy say something useful.

asp, jsp, php, .net, cgi/pl, coldfusion, ect. are development languages as vacunita pointed out.

frontPage, dreamweaver, interdev, etc are all development tools, again as vacunita pointed out.

I've developed in asp, php, .net, and coldfusion. I've never had a problem using oracle with any of them.

pay less than 100 dollars for a Dreamweaver license. For you to develop on

I'm sorry this is incorrect, full version of DWMX 2004 is 399.

the .net web stuff is pretty inexpensave, however the MS development tools are pretty pricey...

php is open source and very popular. I don't care for it much myself.

jsp isn't to big and based on the java programming language. it isn't one of the easiest web technologies to learn.

cgi/pl is on the way out the door, don't bother. very outdated and cumbersome.

asp is another dieing language with the introduction of .net MS will try to migrate everyone to that direction.

coldfusion is my personal fav. Low development time, easy to use/learn and has great support in dreamweaver. the bad thing is the coldfusion webservice is quite pricy, starting at about $1,200.

I would use DWMX as a dev tool. it has good support for several languages:
asp javaScript
asp vbScript
.net c#
.net vb
coldfusion
php
jsp

the MS dev tools are geared only to the ms .net solution. (and not to mention if you use .net you're MS forever.) the other languages are cross platform for the most part.

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.