Newbie...

[baloo92]

I'm trying to figure out what languages to learn. I know HTML and CSS very well, and a little bit of JavaScript with a tiny bit of SQL. My employer wants me to make a page that will enable our customers to look at the jobs we have available (a lot of them), and be able to sort through them according to location, etc. Currently the jobs are listed on a static HTML page. I think the best way for me to do this is to put all the jobs in a database (don't want to use Access if at all possible, but that's a different subject), and learn ASP and SQL. Do I use JavaScript or VBScript? I know VBScript was made to run behind ASP, but I'm worried about browser issues with the increasing amount of people using Firefox... can someone please answer my beginner's questions? :)

[chrismartz]

VBScript within ASP is run on the server-side so that has nothing to do with the browser. If you do your html correctly, you will have no problem for different browsers connecting to your app and all looking the same.

Javascript would not be what you want to use because it is a client-side web development language that cannot interact in the way you want to with a job site.

I definately suggest that if you will have a lot of jobs posted, that you do use MSSQL with your ASP.

[baloo92]

Okay. I read somewhere VBScript would only run in IE; that's why I was going to go with JavaScript. Thanks for the help!

[Ubik]

What is really cool about asp is that you can have pages written in either language, and they can even include one-another. I write VBscript, but VBscript has no 'arraysort' function, so I use a server side javascript for that, and that function is included in a VBscript.

[Bullschmidt]

Perhaps this may hopefully give you some ideas and it's got a downloadable sample:

Classic ASP Design Tips - ASP Web Database Sample
http://www.bullschmidt.com/devtip-webdb.asp