Building dynamic web applications is normally a very complex and time-consuming process. It requires you to have knowledge on various technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript on the client side and one of the many server side scripting languages such as Java, C#, Visual Basic, PHP, Perl, Python to be able to generate dynamic web pages on the server side.
Having to learn the various syntaxes of the different markup and scripting languages adds tremendously to the complexity of the task.
That is why I highly recommend Microsoft’s Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition which at the time of writing is in beta 2 release. Visual web developer uses the visual drag and drop paradigm (Much like how VB works for building Windows applications.), which encapsulates all the complex nitty gritty details and allows you to focus on the high level objective of your web application. But what makes this beta software download even better is the free online video training that comes with it.
I would highly recommend this for anybody interested in prototyping web apps quickly without getting bogged down by the details.
Cheh.. I thought it was released already
I’m looking forward to Whidbey, really…