Hi,

just for interest: Why do U choose ASP.NET for the new website instead of ASP.NET MVC?

Because I'd take the latter one if I create a new web presentation.

Asking greetings

Reiner

Because I have 0.0 experience with MVC and most of the pages are static content anyway. Webforms is what we know and it gets the job done.

Hi Frans,

oh, there are some very good books from Apress about ASP.NET MVC.

But seriously, MVC is much more comfortable to write and maintain, especially in connection with HTML5, and quite easy to learn if U R familiar with e.g. C#.

Just my five Cent.

Suggesting greetings

Reiner

rblock wrote:

Hi Frans,

oh, there are some very good books from Apress about ASP.NET MVC.

But seriously, MVC is much more comfortable to write and maintain, especially in connection with HTML5, and quite easy to learn if U R familiar with e.g. C#.

Just my five Cent.

Suggesting greetings

Reiner

heh Well, the website is most of the time just plain HTML. Only some parts need some ASP.NET but most of it doesn't. As we already had that logic written, we migrated it to the current website.

Frankly, I find MVC a bit over-engineered and as it achieves the same goal, why bother? If you find MVC work better for you, please go for it, but it's not 'better' in the sense it allows for creation of better websites, as that's irrelevant: all asp.net code is generating C# code at runtime which renders the HTML for you, be it webforms or MVC or webpages.

Hi Frans,

of course, if there is no much changing of the content there is no much need for ASP.NET (MVC).

Last week I got in contact with somebody who wanted a CMS system. As I saw that there shall be just a few static HTML sites with some JavaScript, I suggested plain HTML, too. They where surprised because it seems that somebody told them that they'd need a CMS. <LOL>

At the moment I've to maintain the KulturPortal of Frankfurt of the Culture Department of the City of Frankfurt (kultur-frankfurt.de, museumsufer.de, dam-online.de). That was written from guys, as it seems, that come from the Java world, had no experience with C#, ASP.NET and database design. It is terrible, ugly etc. I don't have enough words for it. I'd like to rewrite it, give it an acceptable design and database design with a Adapter data access layer by LLBLGen, but nobody would pay for it.

Sighing greetings

Reiner