Access to Web

[elizabeth]

I'm cross-posting this to the Web Site builders forum. <br><br>I'm an Access Developer and am interested in programming web sites, initially for my own business but then as an extention of my professional services. Have any advice about the best path for this? I've begun reading about ASP, ColdFusion and Dreamweaver and all claim to have important advantages, but being new to this it's hard for me to judge. I'm looking for something that (1) integrates well with Access so I can build on that familiarity, (2) is a professional and robust&nbsp;&nbsp;technology with a &quot;future&quot; as far as marketability and (3) is a good tool.

 

[seaport]

I am in the same situation as yours. Now I am learning ASP since I can reuse my knowledge in VB and ADO. As for the tool, I use Microsoft Scripts Editor (MSE) because it comes with Office 2000 free, but I was told that Microsoft Interdev is a better tool. MSE is just a scale-down version of Interdev.<br>Now I wonder whether I can use Access 2000 as my web database. What's the limitation of Access as a web database? Do I have to go to SQL server?<br><br>Seaport<br>&nbsp;

 

[WaltLukeIII]

I am not sure about some of the products that You are talking about. But I have used both Interdev and DreamWeaver and have been very satisfied with both. I believe that If you are going to be integrating database information then Interdev in the better tool while if you are going to be using alot of graphics Dreamweaver is the better tool. I would try to find someone or somewhere that you can try both of them and see which you like better and are more comfortable with. <p>Walt III<br><a href=mailto:SAElukewl@netscape.net>SAElukewl@netscape.net</a><br><a href=

http://www.muc.edu/~lukewl>homepage</a><br>

 

[DougP]

I have also started into WEB developement and am using Front page 2000, hand made .ASP pages and VBScript to make those .ASP pages.<br>I have ton's of Access and VB experience and a Little SQL Server 7.<br>I think using VBScript in .ASP is a no brainer.<br>I didn't know the first thing about .ASP, 3 weeks ago and now have connected to SQL server on our ISP's site using VBScript and .ASP and love it. I made all kinds of e-mail responders, Database lookup tables and Page counters. I am currently working on a Shoping cart for our distributors. We sell to a disibutor network and don't need Credit cards and it's security. Everything is &quot;Net 30&quot; using their PO.<br><br>So anyway there is a discusion a few days ago on Cold Fusion versus .ASP on the .ASP forum.<br><br>ASP requires nothing but a way to put the pages to the WEB site. You can create them in Notepad and use a Freebie FTP program if you want.<br>IE-5 has a great built in Syntax checker that is really nice. <br><br>One note the ISP has to support .ASP. Some do some don't.<br> <p>DougP<br><a href=mailto: dposton@universal1.com> dposton@universal1.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br> Ask me how Bar-codes can help you be more productive.

 

[Guest_imported]

I've had a lot of success using a mark-up language called iHTML.&nbsp;&nbsp;You have to manually write all the code yourself but it isn't as bad as it sounds, if you can work with SQL then it's fairly easy.&nbsp;&nbsp;The advantage to using this is that it can read the results of Access querries, so most of the hard work can still be done through Access and the pages just return the outcome.&nbsp;&nbsp;There's a free download to try if you feel like taking the plunge <A HREF="

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http://www.ihtml.com</A>