I followed this simple tutorial and managed to create a test web application with signalR. But when I tried to recreate it using ASP.NET website and then browse for the html pag
You should always check the console when something doesn't work - in your case, the page simply can't find the references to the SignalR script and to /signalr/hubs (and it says so in the console). If you change the urls to "/WebSite18/Scripts/jquery.signalR-1.1.3.js" and "/Website18/signalr/hubs", it will work.