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Summary: Not for indy designers
Review: If you don't have your own server this thing shows you no mercy. If you have access to a (NT4) server and you can change stuff on there yourself then go for it. If not, be prepared to be stopped in your tracks after day 4. If you can't find a way to call your ODBC connection then you're SOL. It tells to set up MS PWS on your personal machine but I'd reccomend going for a cheap extra machine and run linux/php-MySQL/Apache.
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Summary: The best book on e-commerce development with ASP
Review: It starts with basics of ASP objects and than moves to covering e-commerce with and example of a candy store. All examples from the book are very clear and for the first time in my life I didn't have to modify a code to make it work. I learned a lot from the book myself even I am at intermmediate level with ASP.
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Summary: Online stores made easy
Review: Knowing only a limited amount of VB script as a starting point to ASP this book gave a step by step approach to designing and working an online store. The ease of the indiviual tasks and explaination made 'Learning' this new language fun together with being prodctive. Fully recomended for anyone wanting to create an online store or learn the basics of ASP Programing.
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Summary: An excellent part of the teach yourself in 21 days series.
Review: My experience in internet-programming was a bit of HTML and a bit of JavaScript. This book taught me everything I needed to know about creating dynamic web-pages, and how to link my web-pages to relational databases. If you have a bit of programming background and want to build your own web-database, this is the book to buy!
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Summary: Perfect for intermediate-level ASP programmers
Review: My only complaint: lazy coding. Anyone working in a team environment knows that the code examples won't fly, but the reasoning behind the code and the flow of the code are certainly competent.Before reading, you should already have an ASP / VBScript background, although the first few chapters did provide some basics--but not nearly enough for a newcomer to get a firm grasp of the subject. I found the book very valuable, and I picked up some great tips from the code examples. I placed numerous dog ears at pages where the code was much more efficient than mine. Great value. Always good to have some e-commerce expertise in your bag of tricks.
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Summary: Good, but I have a few problems with it
Review: Overall, this book was helpful. I am relatively new to ASP and ecommerce. One major problem I found was this: the author says that the best way to make a shopping cart is to have the user log in BEFORE adding things to the cart. Well, from my experience, most sites let you add things to your cart, and THEN prompts you to log in. To change this one minor thing in the author's code is not trivial, especially for a beginner. At least as far as I can tell.
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Summary: Reqiures User Regristration to Shop
Review: This book has one major flaw. The author discusses the advantages/disadvantages of using session variables when creating the cart and the advantages/disadvantages of requiring the user to create an account before anything can be added to their shopping cart. That is great, but then the author proceeds to use the database (require the user to create an account) method throughout the rest of the book. Tell me how many carts require you to create an account to put something in their basket? I think this deters most shoppers. After I realized that the rest of the book uses this method, I put it on the shelf. And thus the reason for the poor rating. I have now purchased VB Developers Guide to E-Commerce published by Sybex. I hope this one is better.
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Summary: Good book to get the idea..
Review: This book is not an ASP reference, but rather it's an application of ASP programming: e-commerce. If you want to build an online store and want to learn the basics buy this book. After getting the idea you can improve upon it by reading some other materials.
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Summary: Great introduction to ASP
Review: This book starts out excellent. I was a beginner at ASP programming so everything was well written and logical. Using this book I have been able to complete my first e-commerce store. There are a lot of great examples and they are also explained well. One part that is lacking is the logging in before you can add to the cart. This is done to avoid session variables, but I think it would turn away a LOT of customers. The author needs to point this out. I programmed my site to allow people to add without logging in and log in only when they are ready to buy. It was extra work, because none of the examples include this. Later on in the book, different sections are written by different authors and you can tell. The writing style shifts dramatically and it is no longer as clearly written as the first part. The examples don't follow a consistent look any longer. Also, some of the example code isn't even on the CD and the code isn't even in the book (p. 280). The book says the code is too long to include in the book so it just references a few sections and then tells you the rest is on the CD. Nothing. The put the code on the SAMS site, but it took them awhile. I paid a lot of money for this book and it would be nice if they had just ONE person to proof read the examples and the writing before it was printed. Overall this was a great book. Other than a few chapters in the middle, it was very well written and thought out. I would highly recommend it to beginners like I was or to anyone working on an e-commerce site.
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Summary: Excellent source for learning ASP at commerical level.
Review: This is trutly a excellent book for learning ASP the examples in this book includes ASP pages that uses SQL and ADO object for data access. The book explaines all the important object of ASP for example the request object that is used for requesting data from a HTML form. The book is based mainly on a project that's extended each day or week. Before reading this book I think it helps if you got some basic knowledge of ASP or VBSCRIPTS. I rated this book 5 stars Its worth the read and the money. Well done "Sams"
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