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I'm looking at using Frontpage (2000) again after a break of 3 years. I'm
very rusty and would appreciate some advice.
I have a potential client who has a few thousand products and wants a user
to "find" a product and then view a simple picture, description and
packaging details of that product.
I have a database background so it would not be too difficult for me to set
up a constantly updated Access database and related pictures library at the
client, and get him to publish it to his internet site at regular intervals.
An asp page would then present the user with a list from the database and
when a product was chosen, generate and send back the HTML page containing
the details and picture.
I've done something very similar before - but with a very small number of
database records.
The operation would succeed/fail on the speed of the database searches and
generation of the HTML reply.
An alternative, would be to generate (using VB), at the client's just prior
to re-publishing to the internet, all of the possible HTML pages and the
list of them, from the database, keeping track of
additions/deletions/changes, and send up to the web site, the changed HTML
pages and list of pages. This would mean no database on the web and instant
linking.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in anticipation,
Michael
very rusty and would appreciate some advice.
I have a potential client who has a few thousand products and wants a user
to "find" a product and then view a simple picture, description and
packaging details of that product.
I have a database background so it would not be too difficult for me to set
up a constantly updated Access database and related pictures library at the
client, and get him to publish it to his internet site at regular intervals.
An asp page would then present the user with a list from the database and
when a product was chosen, generate and send back the HTML page containing
the details and picture.
I've done something very similar before - but with a very small number of
database records.
The operation would succeed/fail on the speed of the database searches and
generation of the HTML reply.
An alternative, would be to generate (using VB), at the client's just prior
to re-publishing to the internet, all of the possible HTML pages and the
list of them, from the database, keeping track of
additions/deletions/changes, and send up to the web site, the changed HTML
pages and list of pages. This would mean no database on the web and instant
linking.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in anticipation,
Michael