>>>>2) some people use frontpage, others say use nothing but pure html. i am looking for opinions on this issue.
>>
>>>Frontpage is good for static pages. It can create pure HTML. How you base this depends on your service provider. If they are running IIS, then use Active Server Pages on the server and send HTML and JavaScript to the client. ASP can use VB script, but Netscape won't run VB script, so anything that goes to the browser has to be javascript or HTML unless you have a captive audience and can require they use Internet Explorer.
>>
>>thanks for the info. obviously i have alot to learn.
>>
>>when you say "frontpage is good for static pages". what do you mean by that? i do have a need to populate some information on a page with some kind of variable data. i was thinking either a foxpro or access table, or text file from a table. can frontpage do this?
>
>Static pages are pages where the information doesn't change. If you need to change data from a table, InterDev is a better tool.
>
>>
>>what is iis?
>
>IIS=Internet Information Server. This is Microsoft's web server. It comes with the NT 4.0 Option Pack.
>
>>
>>thanks brenda
I'm learning this stuff now, including West Wind Web Connection (which I hope the client will buy when they see the demo). I don't think that WWWC is considered ASP (I'm still learning these definitions, too), but it does the same sort of things, only better. WWWC contains some things that are IE-specific or browser version specific, but those things are optional and clearly identified in Rick's documentation. The user has to learn HTML and WWWC's own tools, but not a whole new language like VBScrip or JavaScript. Mostly you just work in vfp. Best of all, maybe, is the fact that queries happen in native vfp. The ASP-Access page that I saw has to load up an ODBC driver.
So far, I use FrontPage Express (which has no documentation) to create the front page and occasionally to make test controls to see what the HTML code looks like. Vfp and WWWC do the rest, which largely involves manually writing HTML code into strings that get passed around. I won't need Interdev or any Java.
My usual HTML reference is
http://www.quadzilla.com/Others that might be useful:
http://www.hwg.org/http://www.w3.org/http://www.webring.com/
