I don't do a whole lot of programming for the internet, but I will have a project coming up that involves writing a webpage that will: open another HTML page in the background (hidden), parsing that page for the required info, then saving this data to a DB, then showing the Sums/Averages/etc. in a Table on my main page.

I made a preliminary attempt at this on my own personal website using ASP and MS Frontpage and found that my site won't run ASP (because it's a freely-hosted site).

This made me wonder what's the difference between the web languages and which would be best for me to learn for the future. Java, ASP, etc..

Also, if anyone has any suggestions for different html/web authoring software I am all ears...Frontpage sucks!

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VBScript, .NET and ASP all all Microsoft. At one time (perhaps still) VBScript would only work on Microsoft's internet browser, so you may not want to use it.

.NET and ASP (ASP.NET) would probably cost you money to use online, since they Require the .NET framework (Microsoft IIS Servers).

Javascript may work, but can't say since I've never tried to do anything with it involving databases.

Personnaly I've always used ASP to create the webpage and handle database connections, javascript for anything not able to be done ni style sheets and notepad.

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thanks JL...I am thinking VBScript - my familiarity with HTML and VB should give me a shorter learning curve, screw 'em if they don't have IE...lol

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