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Easy software for asp.net?

by ThomasTe
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Hi,


I'm about to launch a new website. Right now it's made in classic asp, but I realized that within the next year or two I may want to switch to asp.net, which means that before I do any SEO this should be taken into account.

That is, if I create the page, 'bluewidgets.asp', and do SEO, but after a year decide that it should be 'bluewidgets.aspx', I need to do the SEO all over.


I'm used to create websites in FrontPage and then do a little classic asp on them. Nothing fancy.

As I said I believe I should probably future proof it buy making it in asp.net right now.


Can you recommend any tools that easily lets me create webpages in asp.net, with a good wysiwyg?


I've thought about MS Expression Web.


Thanks.


Best regards,
Thomas
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  • Profile picture of the author Orlando Web Design
    I would definitely consider using Dreamweaver CS4 to build asp.net pages. You can download a free trial from adobe.com and see how you like it.
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  • Profile picture of the author ThomasTe
    Thanks for the idea. I'll look into it.

    Best regards,
    Thomas
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  • Profile picture of the author Nick M
    What you could also do is to use your own page extension (e.g. .thomas) and configure your server handlers to interpret as .asp. When you're ready to switch, you reconfigure the server to handle .thomas files as .aspx files.

    You should have an option to configure this in your web host's control panel, or if you are hosting yourself by modifying your IIS configuration.
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  • Profile picture of the author ThomasTe
    Hi Nick,

    Great idea, thanks.

    I can then continue with .asp now, and if I switch to .net, I can simply ask the server to interpret .asp as .aspx.

    Best regards,
    Thomas
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    • Profile picture of the author Nick M
      You're welcome. It's been a long while since I last worked with .asp.

      asp.net has quite a steep learning curve and is very different conceptually to .asp. If your goal is to build rich interactive applications, you might want to check out Adobe's Flex 3 as an alternative - they have some great free online tutorials

      Otherwise PHP and ASP should do just fine for the bog standard IM stuff asp.net has some advantages server side, but you really need a dedicated windows server ($$$$) to get the most out of it.
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  • Profile picture of the author unsmashed
    I would suggest you map your pages so they end in .html even if ASP or ASP.NET is powering them behind the scenes. You'll get more SEO value from Google if they don't think the page is dynamically driven.
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