looking for the right book...

[dave_b]

Every Frontpage or HTML book I look through presents dozens of options and
hundreds of pages about stuff I have no immediate interest in. What I'm
looking for is a book that gives straight forward, step-by-step instructions
on the development of a simple membership-driven web site. If there's a
Frontpage procedure I can use - great. If it has to be ASP, I've done a
little, so I'd need clear instructions without a lot of tangental ideas and
cross-references...

I will be using MS Access and Frontpage 2003.

Does anyone know of such a book?

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

You are not going to find a book with step by step instructions on how to do this via server-side
scripting (ASP, ASP.net, PHP, etc.) which is required. However if you do a search on the internet,
you can find some pre-written membership applications that you can use.

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Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
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[David Berry]

Your best bet is to do a search on the internet for ASP scripts that do
this. There are a lot of free code snippets available out there. Try
www.asp101.com www.4guysfromrolla.com or www.learnasp.com

 

[Jim Cheshire]

Every Frontpage or HTML book I look through presents dozens of options and
hundreds of pages about stuff I have no immediate interest in. What I'm
looking for is a book that gives straight forward, step-by-step instructions
on the development of a simple membership-driven web site. If there's a
Frontpage procedure I can use - great. If it has to be ASP, I've done a
little, so I'd need clear instructions without a lot of tangental ideas and
cross-references...

I will be using MS Access and Frontpage 2003.

If you want to use ASP.NET 2.0 (your host will need to support that),
you can create a nice membership system without much effort at all
using ASP.NET membership features and Login controls. The default
provider is SQL Server 2005 Express (which is file-based just like
Access), but you can find code samples to create your own Access
provider.



Jim Cheshire
Jimco Software and Books
http://www.jimcosoftware.com

Author of:

Special Edition Using Microsoft Expression Web (Coming Soon!)

 

[Jim Cheshire]

Every Frontpage or HTML book I look through presents dozens of options and
hundreds of pages about stuff I have no immediate interest in. What I'm
looking for is a book that gives straight forward, step-by-step instructions
on the development of a simple membership-driven web site. If there's a
Frontpage procedure I can use - great. If it has to be ASP, I've done a
little, so I'd need clear instructions without a lot of tangental ideas and
cross-references...

I will be using MS Access and Frontpage 2003.

One caveat to my previous post. FrontPage 2003 doesn't support ASP.NET
2.0 natively. You'll need to either deal with that (no designer
support, etc.) or upgrade to Expression Web. Expression Web will let
you create your membership system with ASP.NET 2.0 without even
writing any code.


Jim Cheshire
Jimco Software and Books
http://www.jimcosoftware.com

Author of:

Special Edition Using Microsoft Expression Web (Coming Soon!)

 

[David Berry]

One additional caveat to Jim's suggestion. Expression Web is still a beta
so you can't upgrade to it until it's released although you could download
the trial version at
http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/web_designer/wd_free_trial.aspx
and use that but remember that it's a beta so be careful using it on a
production site.

 

[Clark]

For a book on Access, I recommend "Mastering Microsoft Access 2000
Development" by Alison Balter.