idealprogrammer.com - Part 2 of 3 - presents the exact steps you need to take to create an ASP.NET website that is connected to a SQL Server Database by using DiscountASP hosting services. This shows you how to demonstrate your programming skills by building a portfolio of websites on DiscountASP.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LQNCsxd3Bw&hl=en
Showing posts with label Website. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Website. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Setting Up an Ecommerce Website
All business minded people would always want a guarantee for any business that they put up. In fact, in the actual business world, before any business is set up, there has to be a series of surveys done and feasibility studies conducted. This is to ensure that setting up the business is worth the money, time and effort. This is so because in an actual business set up, you need the space, products, marketing, manpower, and fixtures. However, with the advent of technology, a new way of testing the waters is through ecommerce.
Ecommerce is actually electronic commerce which is done online. In other words, setting up an ecommerce is like setting up a virtual store where people can shop and purchase some items. Although this may sound easy, which is practically true; there are some things that you have to consider in setting up an ecommerce website.
1. Select a website host. A website host acts as your online landlord. The website host is renting out space for you to use in your shopping site. It is therefore important to select the website host that can offer you the necessary requirements for your website to be successful and sustainable. Some of the things that you need to look for in website host are: bandwidth, space, and uptime guarantee. There are a number of good web hosts in the internet; all you have to do is simply select the best.
2. Choose an ecommerce application. One of the simplest and most convenient ecommerce applications is the PayPal 'Buy Now' button. Although this not give you all the features that shopping carts do, if you are on low budget, you can use PayPal temporarily until such time that you can afford other ecommerce packages.
3. Obtain an internet merchant. Since you are operating online, and all purchase and payments are made online also, you need to contact various internet merchants for payment arrangements. Since the most feasible mode of payment in the internet is through credit cards, debit cards, or PayPal, you have to arrange the payment schemes with these merchants. You should learn the ropes in setting up payment gateway accounts with credit card merchants; otherwise you need to seek the advice of someone who does.
4. Make your website people-friendly. One of the most important factors in setting up a website is for it to be people-friendly. This means that the website should be attractive, informative, and user-friendly. You have to consider the fact that not all internet users are well versed with the technology such that it is vital to integrate easy navigational tools in your website.
5. Build your website. Your website should include product description with images if possible, and price tag. Make sure that the shopping cart that you use accurately calculates tax and shipping costs, prices, and charges the customers for the purchases.
If you are planning to set up an eshop it is advisable to check out ecommerce solutions for more useful tips and advice.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Free Way to Make a Website - How to Make Your Own Website For Free Using a Free Software
There are a few ways to make a website, but more importantly, there are some FREE ways. You don't need to be an HTML expert, buy expensive software and spend time learning it, or outsource work to people only to have them charge you a lot of money and take a lot of time.
Just use this free way to make a website and you'll gain control over your online presence and be able to make websites at will.
1) Get a cheap web hosting plan with a company that offers access to "WordPress". WordPress is going to be the free software we use to make our website. This is "open source" software so it is free. People design cool themes and plugins that we can use for free. There are thousands to choose from. Some people will charge a fee for a theme, but most are free and those people just rely on donations for compensation.
2) Get a domain name and install WordPress onto the domain. This is a simple 1-2-3 process. Depending on which hosting company you go with, you will install WordPress using Fantastico, or Simple Scripts, etc... This is a simple process. Just take a look in your hosting account for step by step videos that walk through Wordpress installation.
3) Create the look, make the content, and publish the site! You create the look of the website by adding a theme in the "appearance" section of the admin area on your site. Then you'll add a "header" if you want and some "plugins" that do everything from helping with SEO to adding links to graphics.
Add your content, meaning text, pictures, videos, etc, and click "publish". Now you have used a popular free method of making a website!
---The first and most important step is to get a quality hosting plan for cheap. Does it have everything you'll need to make your own sites?---
You can take a look at our top ratings for hosting companies according to internet users at http://www.HowToHostAWebsite.org.
Have fun making your own sites!
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Upgrading to ASP.Net 2? Why Your Website Might Stop Working When You Do
Asp.Net version 2 was just recently released by Microsoft and contains a feature rich set of classes that can do just about anything imaginable. However if your thinking about hosting your asp.net 2 site on a shared hosting environment there are a few considerations you should know about before you take the plunge. If you have already upgraded you may be wondering why your site that was working fine in version 1.1 but now has problems working in Asp.Net version 2.
Code Access Security
If you receive one of those generic yellow error messages that say something like the following:
Security Exception
Description: The application attempted to perform an operation not allowed by the security policy. To grant this application the required permission please contact your system administrator or change the application's trust level in the configuration file.
Exception Details: System.Security.SecurityException: Request for the permission of type 'System.Net.WebPermission, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' failed.
The Reason? - Code Access Security!
As it turns out many shared hosting companies are setting the Security Trust level in the asp.net version 2.0 machine.config files to the default “Medium” setting then locking it down so it can’t be overridden by the application.
This is great from hosting perspective but not so good if you are a developer that uses asp.net functions like xml.load from another website, webrequest, webclient, system.net, etc… or many other classes that a default medium trust setting doesn’t allow.
What can you do?
There are a number of considerations on how to rectify this situation and the first is to contact your hosting company and ask them to create a modified version of the medium trust machine.config file to allow for the features you want to implement.
Microsoft has provided an article that describes this process and if you’re hosting company is not aware of it than shame on them.
The article can be found here: How To: Use Medium Trust in ASP.NET 2.0
Give this a good read as it explains not only how to modify medium trust but also how to code for the medium trust settings.
If that is not an option you might want to consider recoding your entire website to conform to medium trust, not a very good option, or moving to a hosting company that will work with you for your particular needs.
Allowing open socket connections is a security risk for a hosting company, but if you can establish that your code is not malicious a reputable hosting company should provide you with proper security clearance to utilize the rich classes that asp.net version 2.0 has to offer. After all they are claiming to sell you asp.net version 2.0. And if you can’t use version 2’s classes than you are not getting what you paid for.
Over time there will need to be a balance between the hosting companies security needs and the ability of a web developer to utilize the classes that make asp.net version 2.0 so brilliant and I hope that time comes sooner rather than later.
John Belthoff is a Professional Audio Engineer and an Avid Web Developer who plays and also teaches Jazz Guitar in his spare time. His latest projects include the Internet Production Guide and he owns a small Asp Hosting Company. You can contact him at his personal web site Studio JB.
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