And another new site, since taking on the Secretary role of Warminsters Highbury Youth FC football team, the gent that had been managing their website has given up, so I offered my services (for free of course). I have been spending a considerable amount of time on the site, getting the content and site layout correct.
The site can be found Here.   I took the Microsoft Clubsite Starter kit, then basically removed all of it with the exception of the CSS and Site Navigation structure.  The reason for this was that I dont think our football club needed a members area or Events section.  It had a news section, but it didnt need what I think we needed.  So I added the provider logic from the Small Business website and now use XML for all my backend data (excluding pictures).  

To update the previous entry, I gave up on Community Server as a forum tool formy Wembley Forums site as it wasn't good enough for older browsers (could not add posts if you used IE6 and Win2K OS).  I am now using  Yet Another Forum.NET as my forum engine (An excellent .NET version of PHPBB forum software).  Highly recommended.  Now all I need to do is personalise it a bit more.

Got another new site up and running, its the Wembley forum.  I have been thinking around this idea for a few weeks now and decided to have a pop at it.  I am using an Open Source Forums software called Community Server to provide the forums.  My intention is to provide forums that visitors to Wembley Stadium can use to get information, record memory of great events or ask questions or even buy and sell tickets (informally of course).

The site is upand running, but I am still having problems with the email account activation and alsoI have to remove a lot of the standard Community Server advertisements that come with the forums software "out of the box" as it were.  So still a few more late nights to go yet then.   

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.

Done a bit of work with my London pals, but not so much as we had thought! Nevertheless, I have been spending my time looking at Content Management Systems such as DotNetNuke. These are sites that we set up on the web servers, but you as the user have complete control over the content within the sites. This saves you having to contact the webmaster or web author each time you wish a change to be made to your site. The CMS sites are complex to understand if you wish to modify or make them more bespoke, but DotNetNuke has one very large advantage over most others. Its Free!
Living in Warminster, I also very recently bought the Warminster-Online domain and have now just this evening finished setting the site up and getting it on-line. My intention is that it become the online presense for Warminster and surrounding villages if you are looking for business services of any kind. The site was originally a "Starter Kit" site from Microsoft and I have modified to meet the needs that I felt the site needed. Now all I need is to get some traffic and interest!!! Wish me luck on that one please.

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Update 20 Jan 2008:  All  posts now migrated to BlogEngine.NET.  Hopefully last migration

Just been reading back in my old posts and suprise suprise, nothing that I said I would do in them has yet coe to fruition. I have not yet automated the updating of this blog (Currently editing the raw .ASPX file in visual Studio) and have not yet added information regarding the technologies used to set up this site. Mind you, I have been busy recently and have got a few projects on the go right now. Hopefully this evening, we will be setting up the Warminster Classifieds forums inside of the standard Warminster Forums, owned and run by Keith. If this goes well, we are considering setting up a standalone website for classifieds in the Warminster and surrounding areas. More later...

Just re-vamped the website last night, thought the old one had too much whitespace on it. Quite happy with it now, apart from a couple of things. Firstly, the banner at the top and bottom of the screen should be blue all the way across, not just where the writing is. It works ok on my development machine and a test machine, but I noticed at work that parts of the banner are missing.
Secondly, must work on this part, the web-log. Currently typing this into the website source code and that is not really the right way to do it. I should be able to update the log remotely via a semi automatic method. Maybe think about that next week.
Also I want to add a page detailing how this site was set up and what technologies it is using.