I recently did some work for a gentlemen based in Australia who is opening up a HED bicycle parts retailer. Pretty cool stuff. The site itself was a copy of the HED international site, which is written in ASP. Which I wasn’t too happy to discover, but luckily enough there wasn’t a lot of complicated programming, just basic includes.
The problem came in when we tried to upload it to Media Temple only to find Media Temple stopped supporting ASP back in 2005. So we then tried to upload it to JustHost.com, but again we discovered that they don’t support ASP any longer as well. Finally we settled on GoDaddy’s ASP hosting. Not my first choice, but then again my first choice didn’t support ASP.
So anyways, I uploaded the site and got everything all functional. Made some content changes and discovered an archaic file type CMS called simplEditor. Trust me when I say that it was actually easier editing in the .txt files than it was to load that beast up.
So the site is up and running and our next step is to modify a shopify theme so that we can easily scale an ecommerce shop for them.
It was a good experience working with ASP again, as I haven’t even looked at ASP since back in 2002 or 2003 when I was in college working for the student union.
This guy is super fast and super accurate. Awesome web developer.
