I have recently been setting up a site for my local badminton club Tuesday Badminton Club based in Warminster.  The site is based upon a Microsoft starter kit that anyone can download and configure/customise to their own requirements from Club Starter Kit.  After running it locally on my development laptop, I decided to put it live.  The FTP upload was fine, I had already set up an SQL Server 2005 database with my ISP and updated the connection strings accordingly. The next thing was to configure the membership tables. To do this, I followed this excellent guide from Sue Googe.  When I tried to access the site however, I got the default error page displayed.  So off went the "CustomErrors" element and I finally got the message "Invalid object name 'Announcements'.  Further digging (and I had to dig deep!) led to the fact that the club-add.sql script included in the Club Website is incorrect for setting up the club website.  This explains why it worked on my local laptop, as there was an ASPNETDB.MDF locally, it must have been that the club-add.sql script did not match the included database.  You can download the correct scripts for deleting and re-creating the club starter kit databases from Microsoft.  Once you run These Scripts it all works as expected.

Talk-PC are currently concentrating on building up a portfolio of quality business oriented websites that show the quality of our deliverables.

I am now concentrating all effort on websites for small business's, utilising the very latest Microsoft Technologies for website design, security and presentation.

The technology being used to develop the products is Visual Studio 2005, this includes the Website Server-side technology called ASP.NET and also the very latest AJAX for ASP.NET technology for web page refresh interactivity.  What you get with Visual Studio 2005 is the complete website development environment which is what is required for dynamic business websites.  Its all very well using Frontpage (Or even dare I say MS Word) to design your masterpiece, but what do you doif you want to allow people to "login" to your site.  Will they support different roles and page access based upon the logged in users role (i.e. A low level user just gets access to the basic pages, whereas a higher level user can access more pages and the webmaster or site administrator can access all of the administrative functions as defined).

When I first started this business, I used Frontpage for my customers websites and though this has worked well for the content of those sites (Jan Klakus, West Beach, Andrich, Bath House).  My most recent sites have been written using Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.NET technology.  In fact my very first site (Talk-PC) was written using Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.NET as a learning exercise. To be honest it does not really utilise many (if any) of the advanced capabilities that are provided with ASP.NET, but we all have to start somewhere.

So, back to subject.  My current work in progress is 2 websites using ASP.NET.  Firstly, a local business, WF Curtis and secondly the Warminster Tuesday Night Badminton Club.  Once I have these sites completed, my portfolio will be growing in the direction that I am concentrating in.  Now, less waffling and get back to getting those sites up and running fully.