whats the difference between basic html and asp.net? Now, I have a friend that is a computer graphics designer and I asked her if she knew anyone that knew how to build a site just by typing the codes in. In my opinion that's pure genius. I have been building a site for the past few weeks and it's basic html. I didn't build this site by knowing codes, etc. I built it by designing it under the "design tab". Now, there was a few times, I had to figure out how to do something and I just used a code from what I seen on a site by typing it in the code area instead of the design area. Now if I can design my site by using the "design" tab instead of the "code" tab in html. I should be able to do the same in other languages such as ASP.net What is the big difference and can you build a site in ASP.net by using just the design tab? Whats the big difference between html and other languages? I need a lot of help. Someone help me out.
Heh, well the real difference is that ASP is dynamic- where as HTML is static (more or less). See what happens is that ASP (or any other dynamic server side language; PHP, Perl, etc) just outputs HTML from the server. I'm going to assume you use DreamWeaver the way you are talking about design tabs and code tabs- and no, your not going to be able to create a dynamic ASP page using DreamWeaver's design tab. . . It just doesn't work like that. In my opinion you should scrap DW, it creates hugely bloated HTML pages. Check out a program called Notepad++ if you want to get into dynamic web programming. Though I would suggest learning HTML before you try to make something dynamic like that.