Is asp.net the best way to develop an e commerece site

[forry]

Hi, i have been asked to design a website. the person also wants to sell goods online. I have just started learning asp.net but i am not sure if this is the best option for developing an e commerce site.
The website itself will be designed in dreamweaver. is it possible to integrate the asp.net into html or vise versa.
Thanks

[daninmanchester]

ASP.net is certainly one of the most powerful languages around and is certainly very scalable.

Many people may tell you that it is easier / cheaper to go with php/mySQL but in myexperience the cost is difference in negligable for small to medium sites.

ASP.net has a lot of advantages over other languages in that it has so much built in support for things like multi data provider connectivity, caching, services, xml, theming and skinning, mobile, etc.

[xprt]

hi,
there is no such a thing...java,php,asp.net can give you the same results.
benny
ps - i'm developing my client apps using .net

[u2orange]

ASP.Net all the way!!!

Dump DW, slow, and generally poo. It dont like .net much either when things get heavy. I stopped using DW about a year ago when I kept getting parser errors and DW support was appauling (DW response 'It's because you are using foreign code') What!!! It dont support .Net like the box say it does? <rant over>

[daninmanchester]

You're better off with the free visual web developer. DW support is only really partial. It's better suited to inline languages.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/download/

[u2orange]

After years of use of Homesite (which I still use frequently) which I used alongside DW, I have now moved over to VS, which is fantastic. I wish I had bitten the bullet earlier!