Database + Website

Hey folks,

I run a web site called exitminute.com and I am wondering how to use a database to keep my stories and articles organized. Do any of you know of a good site that can get me started? I would really appreciate the info.

You appear to be running IIS6.0, so you can run ASP.NET apps out of the box.

I'd recommend the usual panel of ASP.NET tutorial/starter sites (like 4Guys or 15Seconds), but as I've gained knowledge over the years, I find their advice lacking: it's too specific to ASP.NET and not .NET as a whole, or even missing the whole concepts of CGI programming in the first place.

If you're going to do ASP.NET, know how to do it properly. Stay away from excessive "postback" controls and other oddities (Server-side events, wtf!)

My personal recommendation?

ASPNETResources.com

cpach, consider also www.LearnVisualStudio.net - and be sure to download Visual Studio Express, or Visual Web Developer - whatever it's called

Best of luck to you!

Why don't you plain use CommunityServer . Its wicked cool and damn easy to set up and use.

I used CS for my site. Check it out at community.dynacx.com

I guess it should do the trick.
-Sashidhar K

I'm a big fan of using products like CommunityServer, and Wordpress etc. But, I am an even bigger fan of knowing how to do this type of stuff for yourself too. I use Wordpress for my blog, but I spent several years coding Content Management Systems on top of Databases before I went with wordpress.

My advice to you is to scruff down and read some books/tutorials/websites. Learn how Database interaction works. Learn about n-Tier systems, etc. And once you have a solid understanding of them, build your own, or go with something like CommunityServer or Wordpress.

But dont' cheat yourself Learn how this stuff works, especially if you are a programmer.

Best of luck to you and your advancement in knowledge!

Great advice... Do you recommend any books that can get me started?

cpach wrote:

Great advice... Do you recommend any books that can get me started?

Well, you have 2 options.
1. Use communityserver as your root site itself....which will take over your entire site.
2. Create another sub-domain like....http://community.dynacx.com (mysite), and put your communityserver installation site there. That way you will have your parent site running separately  and your communityserver site running separately.


Not that I am trying to market for Community Server, but the 2.0+ version is supposed to act as a replacement for your site....basically enabling u to build a site itself.

Should there be any questions, lemme know.

Regards,
Sashidhar

The folks bring up some excellent points.  I programmed two different blogging platforms for my website; it ended up being a great learning experience, and it gave me the ability to customize everything to the detail level I wanted.

Sadly. I stopped blogging for so long, eventually I just took it down.