Extra In Mile in ASP

[AthlonTom]

Meh, been given a really easy ASP assignment in which I have to do the following;
1. Create an Admin area for a site that allows for the Adding, Removing, and Modifications of records in a product database.
2. Create User Log-ins with different levels of permissions, only the manager for example can remove records, sales can add records, etc, etc.
3. Validate all data entered, ensuring proper formatting is used for things like product Names, email addresses etc.

As you can see its all pretty simple, I'm just trying to concoct some crazily groovy ASP ideas to implement in this assignment to liven it up.

So far I'm thinking;
1. Spell Checker, particularly handy for updating item descriptions in the database.
2. CSS manipulation tools, allowing users to change the external css file to change the appearance of the site quickly and simply.
3. Traffic monitoring for the main site.

I cant really think of anything else to-do, ideas have to be strictly limited to whats achievable in ASP in order to conform with the brief. What do you reckon?

 

[AthlonTom]

Bumpy

 

[AthlonTom]

Thanks for the feedback guys - really helps when you can bounce ideas off people


1. The spell checker is a nightmare, I tried having the whole of my "Dictionary" in 1 table in a database, but this was caning the server as it had to go through a huge table, 1 table per letter works well, though if the first letters wrong it doesn't work - tis a challenge but hey!

2. Im writing themes into a table with each record containing the hex colour values for the theme, each column representing a different CSS tag, so the admin can just select a theme for the whole site rather than changing all the individual colours, I'm only putting in say a light theme and a dark theme just as a kinda demo thing for the moment but I want to make the theme time based.

E.G:
00:00 = Dark/Grayscale
06:00 = Dark Red/Orange
10:00 = Orange/Yellow
12:00 = Light/Grayscale
14:00 = Cyan
18:00 = Cyan/Navy
22:00 = Navy/Black
00:00 =

When I say theme I mean very subtle changes to the design - not total recolors. This will be dead simple to implement but is quite cool

3. Not really started the traffic monitoring compontents yet but I have been looking at graph generation and I'm pretty stumped on it - unless i just build the graphs from asci characters rather than graphics - any ideas?

 

[AthlonTom]

there was a free client side spell checker floating around a while back, bit like ie spell but worked in both firefox and ie but i cant remember the name of it

That would massivly simplify the problem but wouldn't get me any marks good idea none the less!

if you dont mind doing your stats in bar charts then you can simply adjust the height/width of an image to build each row of the graph, bit basic but its a dead simple way of doing it

genius!

 

[AthlonTom]

Gah - well I've been plodding on with this project but the other day caught a glimpse of PHP - and it looks a lot more powerful than ASP, can I run PHP on IIS 7.0?

 

[AthlonTom]

What version of ASP are you using? Ye Olde bog standard ASP or .NET 1/2?

If it's ye olde I'd certainly recommend PHP over it, if it's .NET I would say stick with the ASP. Also, do you know ASP already or are you learning whatever language from scratch for this project?

I am unfortunately doing it in Olde ASP as you put it, I already know ASP pretty well, I'm going to learn PHP rather than ASP.Net next I thinks.