Hello all, and thank you in advance for reading/responding. At my job, since our guy hired to redesign our website had been working on the site for over 2 years (I came on about 9 months ago), and I am ready to get it done (primarily work as the graphic designer and marketing ). He also quoted about $3600 to finish the site, which had already had $6000 invested in it based on a former contract. So I asked him to stop the project since I was doing all the project work anyway (everything besides the programming). They were really gypping us on invoices, like 1/2 and hour to resize a photo and implement it. Give me a break. sooo..me thinking it was regular a standard HTML only page, I thought I could figure out based on what very little experience I had - since the entire site only had about 3 pages left to do, mostly images, texts, links, and links for flash galleries I made. (And it is template based). Naturally i thought I could easily edit this on my own. I got all the source files and he told me they programmed using ASP and ACCESS... apparently ASP is a whole new ball game to me, but it sounds PHP-ish which I superficially understand. (Something calls something from a script..I don't really know, this is still new to me) And now I understand that it is server based. So now I am waiting on our IT person in my office to open a port so he can FTP the file through Dreamweaver so I can make the edits and host the site. Basically I need the page to go live before I can really interact with it. The guy who designed this also said it had a built in site editor. So my question is, could someone take a look at the source index page file I attached and tell me, since i am so new and don't quite understand ASP, if I should reconstruct the entire website in plain HTML, or, how do I edit the individual pages? Because as it is now, there is no "About-us.html" or "Stucco.html" pages (Construction / manufacturing company)... for me to edit. Just weird strings that seem to call an ID=23492094823 (some number I'm unable to piece together, or appears to call from a database I can't find). I've read the W3 stuff about ASP but I just can't seem to do anything with it until IT can upload to our server. I can't quite grasp it... What would you suggest I do in this scenario, given I have basic HTML experience for my own website (amandambruce.com) and my BLOGGER blog (theperplexikon.com) which is not brain surgery to edit. Can someone explain in lay terms what I am dealing with and what I should do? Thank you in advance so much. And the "new" site is not uploaded anywhere as of yet... edit: I am pretty sure this is REGULAR ASP and not ASP.net
you should be able to edit the html code from it directly in notepad. It's not a big deal. But from what I understand this is part of a larger application that among other things has some CMS in it. If you want to modify the actual ASP code of the CMS I'm afraid you'd have to learn ASP. If you think web design is hard, wait till you learn the programming part of the web application But asuming the CMS part ready and implemented you should find some Edit.asp page somewhere to allow you to edit pages....just pray you don't need to modify the application it's self, because if you do you'll probably need to either hire that guy back or find somebody else (that will require time to study and understand what's already there because he can modify it). If only 3 more pages were to be added couldn't you have waited a few more days before firing the guy?