Advice for a VB programmer looking to build a website

[Avatarp]

Well the subject line said it. I have built a stand alone application in VB Studio 6. I want to build a web version of my application. It uses an MS Access database and is a pretty straigh forward application that is a membership organizer. I assume I should us Microsoft Visual InterDev to build this. Starting a project requires that I have a Server to host this work...can I use my own computer as the server? How do I start?

Thanks for any advice from any of you. I love vbforums.com!

[dilettante]

Ususing your own computer is ok for development, but if it needs to be used by others you want to put it on a hosted site.

Otherwise you have to worry about firewall issues, ISP terms of service, leave your computer on all the time, etc.

If you use VB6 and/or InterDev you'll want failrly liberal classic ASP hosting. Because it is easier to find cheap hosting most people fall back to PHP and MySQL. Sometimes you can find cheap ASP.Net hosting, but if you're going to use something weird like .Net you might as well consider PHP because it is so common and cheap.

You'll probably have to just throw away most of your desktop VB6 program as you convert to the web. There are ways to avoid using a browser based application in VB6 but most require more sophisticated techniques than just a connection to a MDB.

[Avatarp]

For the development stage can i build it without having to store my files on a web host? That is when I create a new project in Visual InterDev I can point to some Local server in the Choose Server in the Step 1 part of the Web Project Wizard?

You are definately right about using PHP that seems like the best for this.

[dilettante]

For the development stage can i build it without having to store my files on a web host? That is when I create a new project in Visual InterDev I can point to some Local server in the Choose Server in the Step 1 part of the Web Project Wizard?
Sure, as long as you have a local server that can handle ASP. Usually that means running IIS locally with ASP turned on.

I've never heard of anyone using Visual InterDev with PHP but anything is possible of course.

[KiwiDexter]

For the development stage can i build it without having to store my files on a web host? That is when I create a new project in Visual InterDev I can point to some Local server in the Choose Server in the Step 1 part of the Web Project Wizard?

You are definately right about using PHP that seems like the best for this.

1. Yes you can use your own computer to develop, depending on OS etc. If going down the php path do a google on "wamp", will save you a lot of time and heartache in setting up your apache/mysql/php environment.

2. If planning to develop in php keep well away from the MS IDEs. There's a ton of free php development tools about. I generally just use crimson editor, but be warned that's a simple text editor.

3. Sites like www.planetsourcecode.com have tons of examples of how to do most things, if you can read the code posted :)

[Avatarp]

Thanks KiwiDexter I will concider wamp.

[cyberM]

Every server is client to <--> .. For securing your data without exposing on other server only way is building your server.
If you decide to giving your materials to other servers you may protect your rights with restricing download images and texts from security coding..
Do you visited ICloud ?

:bigyello: