My website is hosted at discountasp.net. It was written several years ago in .Net 2.0 I believe. But the programmer is not available. I have a fairly simple website with text, a few pictures and one short data entry form. What I'm wondering is, is there a way that I can port this to some platform that will run at discountasp.net that a novice like me can use? Is there something that I can purchase, or can I run Wordpress or something similar at discountasp.net? Stupid novice questions I know, but I have to start somewhere. Thanks! Donald
Option 1: If you want to get hands on with your web application code yourself then Visual Studio 2012 Express Web Edition would be the way to go - it is free - you can get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads#d-2012-express. One thing to note though - a deployed website already hosted on the discountasp.net web server is often not the same thing as having the source code to open and maintain in Visual Studio; websites are usually compiled, built and uploaded to the web server and you might find you don't have all of the original source code files that your developer had when the site was originally developed. Option 2: WordPress / Joomla etc are all supported around here. You won't be able to 'port' your existing .NET2.0 website over to these CMS tools because they are a completely different technology but you will be able to rebuild a website with them that have similar pages containing the same words / forms.
I didn't know that Wordpress would be supported, that sounds like a reasonable way to proceed. I don't need this all spoon fed to me, but can someone point me where I can read about setting up Wordpress on discountasp.net? I assume that I need to buy the software. Thanks! Donald
Hi Donald, You can setup WordPress using the Control Panel. We have a Web App Gallery installer that will perform an initial installation for you.