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Is it necessary to build an online?

I’m interested in building an online store and I’ve noticed a lot of other online shops use .asp. Is there some kind of advantage?
AWESOME! because I know PHP. LoL

Is there an advantage to asp? Yes and no. ASP is nice, because it supports Visual Basic and C#,(C++ too, if you have 1337 skills), and plus it has a really nice editor to make your site look cool (editor is called MS Web Developer…Express Edition is free). Asp also has pretty nice, fast web pages that are ideal for things like shops and forums.

Now with the downside. 1 is portability. Though technically Linux and Mac OSX can load a .asp page, most asp pages require ActiveX, something that has yet to be (officially!) released with Linux. Since Unix and Linux are pretty much the heart of the internet, and most websites are run on Unix/Linux servers(including yahoo answers, if I am not mistaken), not many webhosts support asp.

In the end, a great way to make a store, but not worth learning yet. If you want to build a store, I’d recommend a portable language like Perl or PHP, though Perl is more powerful, so I’d recommend that.

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2 Responses to “Is it necessary to build an online?”

  1. spyka Says:
    December 7th, 2009 at 3:56 pm

    All coding languages have advantages and disadvantages.

    ASP is a popular coding language full stop, not just within online shops.

    There are a lot of perfectly fine PHP online shop scripts which work just as well, in some cases better, then the ASP ones.
    References :
    http://www.spyka.net/codes

  2. eevilcheese Says:
    December 7th, 2009 at 4:19 pm

    Is there an advantage to asp? Yes and no. ASP is nice, because it supports Visual Basic and C#,(C++ too, if you have 1337 skills), and plus it has a really nice editor to make your site look cool (editor is called MS Web Developer…Express Edition is free). Asp also has pretty nice, fast web pages that are ideal for things like shops and forums.

    Now with the downside. 1 is portability. Though technically Linux and Mac OSX can load a .asp page, most asp pages require ActiveX, something that has yet to be (officially!) released with Linux. Since Unix and Linux are pretty much the heart of the internet, and most websites are run on Unix/Linux servers(including yahoo answers, if I am not mistaken), not many webhosts support asp.

    In the end, a great way to make a store, but not worth learning yet. If you want to build a store, I’d recommend a portable language like Perl or PHP, though Perl is more powerful, so I’d recommend that.
    References :

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