> From: "Tony Crockford" <tonyc at boldfish.co.uk> [...] > Dynamic sites *can* be indexed by search engines. > (any links that show how to make that work are appreciated) many of the search engine resources have some info on that... you can hack the URL: http://spider-food.net/dynamic-page-optimization-b.html or you can rely on the updates to SEs that allow them to now read pages with query strings appended to the URL... google, for instance, now reads these pages: http://spider-food.net/dynamic-page-optimization-c.html > Big sites should be based on a data/template solution for easy > maintenance. well, that's my take... > ASP will probably cost more than open source. not if they already have licenses... are they an MSDN shop, for instance? will it be hosted somewhere else? and if so, no, ASP shouldn't cost anything there, just hosting... otherwise, for an ASP development environment, crack out the MSDN kit... > Go with what the client needs. oh yeah... > So: > > If they have ASP people and have outstanding business reasons to use > ASP I gotta learn ASP. (So any excellent tutorial links much > appreciated!) [...] search on the site: http://evolt.org/search/index.html?keywords=ASP check the directory: http://dir.evolt.org/coding/server-side/asp/ search the list archives: http://www.google.com/search?as_q=ASP+sites&num=20&as_dt=i &as_sitesearch=lists.evolt.org&safe=off look at the WROX books...