I'm a little confused as the the differences between these 3 starter kits, can someone point the differences out to me?
This is just my opinion as a part-time asp.net hack, but here's my take on it:
The Club Starter Kit (CSK) is the original. It really caught on and this forum was quite active for quite awhile. Although it had some bugs and wasn't really designed to be very extensible, it was used to produce quite a few live club web sites. The activity
has died down significantly, but there is a *lot* of information buried in this forum on fixing the various bugs, adding some new features, and getting it working with some hosting companies.
There were requests to add additional capability and features - which led to the Extended Club Starter Kit (ECSK). For whatever reason, the ECSK never seemed to cause much activity in this forum. My site, based on the original CSK, was already in production
by the time the ECSK came out and I didn't find any new "must have" features to cause me to make the switch. From what I recall, the ECSK shared much of the original CSK code.
The CSK 2.0 is a separate project designed to take the CSK to a new level - new features, eliminate bugs, etc. It is a fairly significant depature from the original CSK (major code changes). Although it has some nice features, I haven't switched to it
because I would have to redo all of the customization that I've done to my production site. Since the code is quite different, that would be a major effort that just isn't worth it at this point.
If I were starting from scratch today, I would *probably* go with the CSK 2.0. The only hesitation is that I don't know how well it works with hosting companies that use medium trust (like GoDaddy.com).
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Re: Differences between the Club Starter Kit, Club Starter Kit 2.0, and Extended Club Starter Kit
Jun 16, 2008 01:55 PM|LINK
This is just my opinion as a part-time asp.net hack, but here's my take on it:
The Club Starter Kit (CSK) is the original. It really caught on and this forum was quite active for quite awhile. Although it had some bugs and wasn't really designed to be very extensible, it was used to produce quite a few live club web sites. The activity has died down significantly, but there is a *lot* of information buried in this forum on fixing the various bugs, adding some new features, and getting it working with some hosting companies.
There were requests to add additional capability and features - which led to the Extended Club Starter Kit (ECSK). For whatever reason, the ECSK never seemed to cause much activity in this forum. My site, based on the original CSK, was already in production by the time the ECSK came out and I didn't find any new "must have" features to cause me to make the switch. From what I recall, the ECSK shared much of the original CSK code.
The CSK 2.0 is a separate project designed to take the CSK to a new level - new features, eliminate bugs, etc. It is a fairly significant depature from the original CSK (major code changes). Although it has some nice features, I haven't switched to it because I would have to redo all of the customization that I've done to my production site. Since the code is quite different, that would be a major effort that just isn't worth it at this point.
If I were starting from scratch today, I would *probably* go with the CSK 2.0. The only hesitation is that I don't know how well it works with hosting companies that use medium trust (like GoDaddy.com).