[thelist] CGI form to ASP

[Joshua Olson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Faye Tarzwell (FayeC)" <ftarzwell at fayec.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 12:15 PM


> Do I need to find out which ASP script they have installed first or any
> ASPMail code will work?

Hi FayeC,

You'll need to know the platform... Windows/ASP or Linux/ChiliASP.  The
platform will dictate which tools are available to you.

> And if so which is the easiest way to achieve this conversion?

Inventory the old site for functionality and pages.  Identify which pages
access the database, remote servers via ftp or http, send mail, or perform
some other non-trivial action.

Identify technologies required to implement the functionality on the new
platform.  Microsoft has server controls (ADODB, CDO, MSXML, WINHTTP, etc)
for most of these sorts of things if on a Windows server and Google is
infinitely helpful for finding out how to do most things in ASP.  If on
Linux, you'll need to look around for answers... I'm not sure where since
I've never used it.

Move the databases over to the new server in a format that can be accessed
by ASP (typically anything that has an ODBC driver would work).

Port over static or semi-static portions of the site.  Spidering the old
site can be a very quick way to do this since you end up with HTML that can
be simply stored on the server.  Take a look at design elements that can be
placed into include files and reused.

Implement the non-trivial portions of the site.

Launch site.

Sip wine.


HTH,

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Joshua Olson
Web Application Engineer
WAE Tech Inc.
http://www.waetech.com/service_areas/TX/
706.210.0168