First and foremost, I assume that when you say ASP, you mean classic ASP 3.0 and not ASP.NET. If however, I am mistaken in this assumption, the rest of my reply would prove pretty irrelevant. I would also add the necessary disclaimer that this group is expressly dedicated to .NET technologies and not to legacy technologies like ASP.
The major problem with ASP(classic ASP) was that there was no separation of code from rendering elements. They all were intermingled. This "facility" led most site designers to design sites with complete disregard to any type of logical tier separation. While it is possible that the site in question has been designed in a very object oriented manner where all dynamic elements are clearly separated from static elements, I strongly doubt it. My experience with ASP sites indicates that anyone taking up the responsibility of redesigning the site would need to have an intricate understanding of ASP and how the code logic dictates the conditional rendering of different pages. Designers for ASP sites usually provide a static representation of the prospective design (HTML/PSD) and allow the programmer to recreate that design using code. In other words, they are only able to provide a 'picture' of what the site should look like. The complete implementation needs to be done by the programmer. To summarize, I do not believe it would be relatively easy to design a new look and integrate it with ASP pages. On Feb 7, 2:20 am, "Le' Dude" <[email protected]> wrote: > A client wants to redesign a .asp site. They want to keep the current > technology that is in place (shopping, showing product variations, > etc), but they want a different look and feel. For practical > purposes, what exactly would be involved in creating a new visual look > for the site? How would one integrate a new graphic design with an > asp site? I noticed that in Dreamweaver one can work on asp but I've > never done that. > > What I need to do is assess whether or not this is something I can do > as a graphic designer, or if what the client really needs is a > programmer and an art director. > > Here is the site in question:http://209.223.98.170/istar.asp > > Just to recap, what would be the normal procedure for visually > revamping a site like this for somebody who is used to working in > Dreamweaver. Can I redesign this in Dreamweaver, and then have it > integrated into the site architecture pretty easily if I have the > original site to work with? Or would I just redesign the visual > element and then hand that off to somebody who knows asp? Could I > design it in HTML and then transfer that to ASP?
