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Is anyone here a web designer? I need to design a web for an organization. I have been told by someone who has done one that I need to make it .asp so that it is interactive and easily updated. Is it hard to learn how to do this? Any advice would be apprecitated.

I'm not a web designer. But I'll tell you right off that bat that "interactive" and "easily updated" are good things. However, they're very difficult for the novice developer. (For example, I'm typing this in a text box and when I'm done I will click the "Post Quick Reply" button to post it. That's all very nice, but the actual code behind the box and the button is non-trivial, at least for somebody starting out.)

I would also be moderately leery of .asp. It's a Microsoft standard, and if you get too deep into Microsoft-ish widgets, you'll end up with something that can only be view in Internet Explorer, which is a bad thing IMO.

The first thing you ought to do is to find out exactly what information they want to provide. Start small and simple and evolve. What are the one or two most important things they want to accomplish? For example, if a restaurant owner with no web site wanted to start one, I would say a single page with the restaurant's name, location, phone number is a good start. Find out what the low-hanging fruit for your organization is and start there.

You should look at where the Web site is going to be hosted - if it is at the organization, then yes, you may be limited to .asp. If not, there are other alternatives like PHP. The organization may be wanting the Web site to interact with a database, so keep that in mind. That can be a bit more complicated, depending on what they want.