developing website

what should I know?

[star_get1]

hi..I would like to know what do I need to do in order to develop a website that has shopping cart? It's for final project.. as far as i know, I have to use VB Script, asp, IIS 5, and SQL server to develop the website. but, I'm not sure how those four things can work together? :(
please help and guide me..thanks a lot..

[fathom]

Hi star_get1 and welcome to WebmasterWorld! ;)

That's a very broad question - and I think the site search function (page top) might help narrow down to some specific questions you may have.

[ShawnR]

In addition to searching for specific bits, you might try an online tutorial at one of the many sites such as w3schools. It is too broad a question for anyone who knows the answer to try to answer it in a post!

Do you mean that the people who commissioned you have insisted you use those technologies, or that you think the only way to do it is with them? If you have a choice, look at the alternatives as well.

Shawn

[star_get1]

thanks to fathom and shawnR..anyway, i would like to find out again whether is there any such thing as VB Script. Net?

To make my previous question more narrow, do I use VB Script or VB.Net to develop a website?

And also what is the use of ASP? what are the difference between ASP and ASP.Net?

thanks a lot..

[SuzyUK]

Hi star_get1

The WW Microsoft related forum [webmasterworld.com] will provide more help with ASP, ASP.net

the answer to the VB questions will be there too...

Suzy

[sullen]

You're obviously in need of a good basic tutorial in asp (or asp.net) - I'm afraid I can't recommend an online one, but back when I started I used "ASP from Scratch" (book, can't remember the author).

To answer your specific questions: ASP is a Microsoft system built into IIS - so any ASP site must be hosted on a Windows (IIS) Server, with scripting turned on.

In order to use ASP, you can choose to use either VBscript or javascript (or VB, javascript or c# with asp.net). You can also choose to use a database (Access, MySQL or SQL Server) - you use SQL to query the database and vbscript (or javascript) to display/ transform that data.

As for "what is the use of ASP" - it is a way of using databases and vbscript to produce a dynamic website, as clumsily explained above. ASP.net is the new version of ASP with several added features: functionally it is broadly similar to ASP, but the coding is quite different (so, since you're learning from scratch, probably best to find a tutorial on asp.net).