[ale] Website Conversion

[Jay Lozier]

On 10/31/2012 03:12 PM, Bob Kruger wrote:
> 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.
>
> Database is Microsoft SQL, but exporting and importing will not be 
> that difficult and I can probably handle that.
It does not sound like it should be to difficult to migrate more like 
tedious and possibly time consuming. You might want to review the site's 
html to see how clean it is. I do not know how messy the final code 
produce by DotNetNuke isor if tends produce non-standard html.
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: Jay Lozier
>     Sent: Oct 31, 2012 2:55 PM
>     To: ale at ale.org
>     Subject: Re: [ale] Website Conversion
>
>     On 10/31/2012 12:57 PM, Bob Kruger wrote:
>>     All;
>>
>>     I "inherited" maintainance of a website that is run via
>>     DotNetNuke on a Microsoft server.  To say 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 not be good.
>>
>>     At the same time, the webhosting provider that I inherited, e.g.
>>     webhost4life.com, has proven to be increasingly incompetent and
>>     unresponsive with useless tech support from Mumbai.  All are
>>     sorry for my inconvenience, but they do nothing to fix problems. 
>>     Time for a change
>>
>>     Iam looking for someone who can cross both Windows server based
>>     systems and Linux based systems to migrate what we have to a
>>     Linux based platform and software, but keep a similar look at
>>     feel. And, there is compensation with this project, e.g. not
>>     asking for free work.
>>
>>     Any takers or recommendations?
>>
>>     V/r
>>
>>     Bob
>>
>
>     Bob,
>
>     A couple of quick questions:
>
>     What type of site is it (e-commerce, informational, etc.)?
>     I am concerned about what security, data encryption, etc. that are
>     required.
>
>     Does it use a database (MS SQL Server most likely if it is MS based)?
>     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.
>
>     Is there any server side scripting and if so what language?
>     My guess for an MS site is asp.
>
>     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.
>
>     I have recently started working with Fat Cows (www.fatcows.com)
>     for a couple of informational websites. So far they seem very good.
>
>     -- 
>     Jay Lozier
>     jslozier at gmail.com
>
>
>
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Jay Lozier
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