Re: [cobalt-users] Two beginner questions

[Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 4/5/00 8:05 AM, alonsog@xxxxxxxxxxxxx at alonsog@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Here they are:
> 
> I'm trying to upgrade a Raq3 from 32 mb to at least 128 mb.
> Do I need to purchase special memory? any recommendations on certain brand
> or model?

It uses fairly standard memory PC 100 SDRAM, if I'm not mistaken--but you'll
want to check the list archives and the knowledge base to be certain.

You can do a search on www.vikingcomponents.com as well and it will get you
the right stuff.

> Also, what are the advantages / disadvantages of FrontPage 2000? I find it
> easy to use, but I've heard it has many limitations. We don't do very
> complex design yet, but would like to start using the right tools from the
> beggining. Any recommendations?

You open up a big can of worms with FrontPage server extensions, including,
but not limited to security and stability issues as well as a high
likelyhood that it will at some point 'muck things up'.  That's a technical
term.

I have had none too good experiences with it in the past, and stopped
supporting it on any serious project.

I would really suggest looking at traditional web development methods using
tools like PHP, MySQL, etc.  They are very powerful and not that hard to
use.

I guess, to get all sides of this, and if you're a fan of MS products,
you'll want to look at ASP and MS SQL on NT using Visual InterDEV as your
development environment.

One thing is that its safe to say that essentially noone is using FrontPage
Server extensions for serous web development of large scale & volume
e-commerce sites, etc.  It is safe to say that PHP and ASP *are*.

While I consider everything I say (at any point) to be absolute fact, others
may disagree with me. :)

-k