Scoilnet project

Today I just want to explain what is my actual project Scoilnet.

What I am working is a portal for education in Ireland . I am part of a government body attached to the Education Department, and this site is running since 1998.

The problem is that this site has never since been redesigned and it look actually terrible.

From a huge 1 million pages hit (4 years ago Scoilnet had a Golden web award) to a little close to nothing today.

So my job now is to create a new Scoilnet including top of the art in technologies. I choose ASP.Net because I am myself an old ASP fan, and .Net seem to me the best approach for this task.

So since the Beta 1, I am deaing everyday with some new exciting challenges on programming. Scoilnet is really for me the first big project I have to do with ASP.Net. I just hope that everything will work smoothly as expected !

Today I have to fisnish one of the most difficult stuff I have to code until now, I talk about an article template.

The idea is to provide a full article page for users when they click on a resource or a link inside Scoilnet.

To understand what I want to achieve, look at this site International Herald Tribune

I want to mimic the functionalities they have already done in Javascript, 3 columns or 1 column, next previous page, etc...

Of course I don't like stealing code, so I code this in server side by using intensively StringBuilder classes. Today I have to finish it with the inclusion of the Previous Next function.

I should be able to finsih tonight. If you read this and want to give me some ideas on best approach from reading an article in a database to display dynamically 1 or 3 columns, let me know