RE: Moving to IIS

Steve:

In view of the responses you've received, I'll just address FrontPage.
Please use professional quality software to perform professional work.
You'll be much happier and more productive! You could try Macromedia
Dreamweaver (bit of a RAM hog, by the way), Adobe GoLive or NetObjects
Fusion. We worked for more than a year with FrontPage 98 (and 2000) before
upgrading to Dreamweaver.

Keith Purtell, Web Designer
  Member, HTML Writers Guild
VantageMed Corporation
http://www.vantagemed.net/
http://www.vantagemed.com/
"Integrated Solutions
 For Healthcare"

> -----Original Message-----
>
> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 19:02:38 -0500
> From: Steve Bassler <bassmstr(at)westol.com>
> Subject: Moving to IIS
>
> For a few years now, I've been developing and supporting a
> site running
> O'Reilly's Website Pro on a Win NT box.  The hosting company
> is pulling
> the plug on this machine and it looks like we're going to
> have to move -
> rather quickly - to another hosting service, probably running
> on an IIS
> platform.  (Not my choice.)
>
> Putting aside how I feel about everything Micro$oft, I'm going to have
> to deal with this, and I think I need some help.
>
> I've never had to work with IIS before.  My first question is, I've
> heard about MS's Personal Web Server.  Is this something I can load on
> my Win 98 development platform, test out all the features I need to
> migrate over (page counters, server-side image maps, SSI, CGI (perl),
> etc), and then upload to the new site on the NT platform?  Is
> it similar
> enough to IIS to do this, or is it a different animal altogether?
>
> Second: Frontpage.  How useful is it?  Do I need it?
>
> Third: ASP.  I've done all my scripting in perl so far.  Can
> I continue
> to do so or will I need to bite the bullet and learn ASP?  Does it do
> anything that perl can't, or do it faster or more efficiently
> (considering the platform/environment)?
>
> That should be enough to start chewing on, don't you think?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Bassler
> email: bassmstr(at)westol.com, WebServant(at)pdinet.org, Bassler(at)lolc.org
> Visit PDI Ministries at http://www.pdinet.org
>  Lord of Life Church at http://www.lolc.org
>  or my own home page at http://www.westol.com/~bassmstr

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