General web site design

Here are the considerations of general web site design:

 

1. Color theme: There is a color theory, namely using "compatible" colors.  For example, http://www.hypergurl.com/colormatch.php.

 

2. master layout: fonts, icons(and address bar icon), menus, content, ads

 

3. authentication/authorization, SSL for login page

 

4. credit card charging, using SSL as well.

 

5. ad hookup, search engine friendly.

 

6. database schema design and preventing sql injection attacks

 

7. interactive charting

 

 

Technical details:

1. ADO:

http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/ADO.NET/Data-Access-in-.NET-using-C-sharp-Part-1/

http://dotnetperls.com/odbcconnection-example

 

2. Login module:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2005/10/18/427754.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2005/08/25/423703.aspx

http://scottonwriting.net/sowblog/posts/7763.aspx for CAPTCHA

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/custom-controls/CaptchaControl.aspx for CAPTCHA

http://www.asp.net/downloads/sandbox/table-profile-provider-samples/ for customized table based profile

http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/120705-1.aspx a long explanation

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/02/24/ASP.NET-2.0-Membership_2C00_-Roles_2C00_-Forms-Authentication_2C00_-and-Security-Resources-.aspx a resource for login related topics

 

3. SSL setup:

These two seems the easiest way:

http://www.apijunkie.com/APIJunkie/blog/post/2008/02/How-to-easily-redirect-from-http-to-https-in-ASPNET.aspx

http://www.apijunkie.com/APIJunkie/blog/post/2008/03/From-HTTP-to-HTTPS-and-back-(continued-discussion).aspx

The second one has a link to convert vb code to c#.

 

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/web-security/WebPageSecurity_v2.aspx

http://tonesnotes.com/blog/2004/05/aspnet_forms_authentication_wi.html

http://www.leastprivilege.com/PartiallySSLSecuredWebAppsWithASPNET.aspx

http://ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/01/20/formsauthp2.html

http://omni-foundation.net/blog/blog1.php/2008/10/31/visual-studio-development-server-and-htt

http://www.wilcob.com/download/index.html replacement of Cassini

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/60113/https-with-visual-studios-built-in-asp-net-develpment-server

 

4. setup visual studio and IIS:

http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/387/using-visual-studio-2008-with-iis-70/