<head><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style></head><body><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif">The current site is informational. Primary purpose now is to provide the organization's newsletter for download. For the future site, there is some e-commerce that would happen. Also, membership should be handled via the site using some sort of e-commerce application. Because there are different membership options (based on distribution of the newsletter, e.g. electronic, printed, or CD), we would like to see that handled via the site as well.<br><br>Database is Microsoft SQL, but exporting and importing will not be that difficult and I can probably handle that.<br></font></font></font><blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid">-----Original Message-----
<br>From: Jay Lozier <jslozier@gmail.com>
<br>Sent: Oct 31, 2012 2:55 PM
<br>To: ale@ale.org
<br>Subject: Re: [ale] Website Conversion
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/31/2012 12:57 PM, Bob Kruger
wrote:<br>
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<style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif">All;<br>
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<font size="2">I "inherited" main<font size="2">tain<font size="2">a</font>nce of</font> a website that is run
via DotNetNuke on a Microsoft server. To s<font size="2">ay
that I am undershwelmed is an overstatement. However,
the site has been up for a number of years, and site
users have gotten used to the look and feel. To change
that would <font size="2">not be good.<br>
<br>
<font size="2">At the same time, the <font size="2">web<font size="2"> hosting pr<font size="2">ovider that <font size="2">I inherited<font size="2">, e.g.
webhost4life.com, <font size="2">has
proven to be increasingly incompetent
and unresponsive with useless tech
support from Mumbai<font size="2">. All
are sorry for my inconvenience, but
they do nothing to fix problems. Time
for a change </font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font><br>
<br>
<font size="2"><font size="2">I<font size="2"> am looking for <font size="2">someone who can cross both Windows server based
systems and Linux based systems <font size="2">to migrate
what we have to a Linux based platform and software<font size="2">, but keep <font size="2">a similar look at
feel. <font size="2">And, there is compensation <font size="2">with this project, e.g. not asking for
free work.<br>
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<font size="2">An<font size="2">y takers or
recommendations?<br>
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<font size="2">V/r<br>
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<font size="2">Bob</font><br>
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Bob,<br>
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A couple of quick questions:<br>
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What type of site is it (e-commerce, informational, etc.)?<br>
I am concerned about what security, data encryption, etc. that are
required.<br>
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Does it use a database (MS SQL Server most likely if it is MS
based)?<br>
In principle migrating from one relational database to another is
more a pain than especially difficult. Details such as indexing,
views, etc may be troublesome in the conversion and there some
differences in the SQL dialects.<br>
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Is there any server side scripting and if so what language?<br>
My guess for an MS site is asp.<br>
<br>
There are several cheap, good hosting companies available and from
what know transferring to another host is not terribly difficult. I
think transferring is mostly about paying a fee and wait a few
minutes and you are done.<br>
<br>
I have recently started working with Fat Cows (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.fatcows.com">www.fatcows.com</a>) for
a couple of informational websites. So far they seem very good.<br>
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Jay Lozier
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jslozier@gmail.com">jslozier@gmail.com</a></pre>
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