And..yes...another Newbie!

Hey there all.

My name is RVFmal and I am a newbie.

Not just on this site, but to web design and programming in general. I have been asked todesign a site for a mate of mines company and needless to say it has become rather a complicated process given the requirements.

I am currently using Actual Drawing to get the basic design and HTML code and the Dreamweaver to amend the code as necessary.

However I am haveing a few issues with a number of things, one being trying to incorporate a quotes package with quite a few formulae into HTML so that clients and the like can "pull" their own quotes off the site.

I have been told that ASP is the best language to use. Is this true?

ASP is the best language to use if it's the one you're most comfortable with and if you have a platform to support it. Personally, I don't like ASP, but many on this Forum do. ASP uses Visual Basic code, which I simply don't get on with. Other languages, such as PHP and JSP, use C-Style programming, which I much prefer. Additionally, ASP usually runs on Windows platforms, PHP and JSP usually run on Linux platforms.

And of course, now there's .NET which you can program with ASP, C#, etc.

Welcome to Webforumz!

Welcomez

What Sirkent said, also, what type of hosting have you got? Windows or Linux?

Thanks for the welcome.

Hosted on Linux Servers. From your comments I would assume that PHP is the better to utilise?

Is there an "easy" way of converting the excel spreadsheet into HTML using PHP or any other language?

Do you want to just save the data so that others can look at it? In that case, open excel and go to file > Save as Web Page - It should be present from Office 2000 and onwards at least!

It doesn't provide very good html code, but it should display properly in most browsers.

Unfortunately not. I want the client to actually be able to utilise the quotes package to pull a quotation online.