How hard is ASP for an HTML developer.

[mawood]

I have been coding websites for 8 years. I know HTML, advanced JavaScript, CSS, XML, ect.

I have been asked to improve the look and feel of a site, but it is all in ASP.

I know nothing about ASP, yet. What will I need? How hard is it to take the ASPs and modify them? Can I download these ASPs from their website and edit them or do I need some sort of uncompiled version?

Any insight is most appreciated. Thank you.

[TheBearMay]

How good are you at VBSscript? Not a big leap from JavaScript, but there is a small learning curve. If you can download the code you should be able to edit them with any text editor, to run them though you'll have to place them back into an IIS environment.

[mawood]

What is an ISS environment? How can I set that up on my local pC?

I do know VBScript pretty well. I don't think I will be changing much of the existing code. I will mostly just be changing their graphics with minimum modifications to the code.

So you're saying that when I get the username and password for their site, I can download the live ASP's and edit them as is? There is no compliling?

[TheBearMay]

IIS is Microsoft's web server. If you have WinXP Pro or WinNT it's an optional install from the CD. ASP code is "compiled" at run time.

[st3ady]

Hey mawood. If you already know html and advanced javascript, i'd say you will have no problem getting into asp.
Before you begin, I recommend you download the website files you plan on editing, and make a backup. Then, make a test folder on the web server and upload your edited files to check them out and see if they work properly.
If you are only replacing images and making small changes, you won't have to understand all the code you see. But give it a shot and try reading through it and see if you can figure out what each part does. It is also helpful to make comment notes by putting a single quote (') in front of the line you want to comment.
Good luck! :)

[poiuy]

You really just need to search around the net for good sites that will help you understand what is going on in the pages.

The default w3schools.com everyone suggests is a great place to start. I always felt looking at sites like this (http://www.aspwebpro.com/aspscripts.asp) helped me by looking at working codes and seeing how they work really helped me out a lot.

The cool thing is when you get things sorted you can already see working examples and you just need to understand what's happening and you should have no problem figuring out how to do it.

We have total confidence you be adding that to your experience levels before to long :cool: