asp ??

[norwegianbug]

:confused:

Does bluehost support asp ??

[BuddyDigger]

Nope I believe ASP will only run reliably on a Windows Machine. There is some talk about BlueHost offering Windows based hosting but, nothing is final yet.

[norwegianbug]

:(

I'm fairly new to this web stuff so let me see if I understand this right....I'm running on windows xp but that doesn't matter since bluehost uses linux as their operating system ??

[grant]

Correct. You don't have to have linux on your home machine to use bluehost's services.

[norwegianbug]

What I mean is....even though I have windows on my machine and I define an asp page in dreamweaver, it apparently won't work when I test it because bluehost is using linux and doesn't support asp ??

[grant]

Sorry, I guess I didn't understand your question fully. No, I don't think your ASP files will work on the bluehost servers. I know that you are kind of unfamiliar with the web stuff, but have you considered trying straight HTML and then maybe working up to PHP? I'm not a progammer and it's taken some doing, but I've learned quite a bit by just diving in and experimenting. Also, a good resource for all things web related is http://www.w3schools.com/

Most of what I learned is from just experimenting and trial and error, but that site has a lot of nifty tutorials for those just starting out.

Just a thought.

[norwegianbug]

I'm working with dreamweaver because I don't know html but I'll look into the php.

Thanks, guys.....you rock !

[John]

php IS the way to go...:D

[hofmax]

If you want to be a step ahead of most people you should look into Ruby and Ruby on Rails, Python might be interesting, too.

As a first step though, PHP & MySQL is probably best for you.