Building a catalog

[Guest]

I have been given the task of building a parts catalog for the company that employees me. The initial release is to be to be a CD, with a later effort to pushing this to our web site. We just want to reduce our cost of business by reducing printing and shipping costs at this time. It is doubtful this will ever really become an e-commerce tool, mainly because of the users.

The existing catalog is pretty straight forward, with about 125 products and aprox 25 options per product.

I would be intersted to hear from anyone who has experience with a project like this. It seems that FrontPage is the logical tool to build the content.

Thank you for your help.

 

[Kevin Spencer]

You have quite a job on your hands. First, a catalog is an excellent use for
a database-connective web site. However, as you want to put it on CD, you
will not be able to do it that way, as a database-connective web site
requires a web server and dynamic web pages. On a CD, you would be pretty
much restricted to static pages (while you could build an app on CD that
would create dynamic pages, it would be prohibitively costly to do so).

One possible suggestion would be to build an ASP/ASP.Net-driven web site
first, that displays product information dynamically from a database. You
could then use that app to dynamically create a page for each product, save
the HTML, and thereby quickly build a static page for each product.

FrontPage would be an excellent choice for either type of web site.

--
HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.

I have been given the task of building a parts catalog for the company

that employees me. The initial release is to be to be a CD, with a later
effort to pushing this to our web site. We just want to reduce our cost of
business by reducing printing and shipping costs at this time. It is
doubtful this will ever really become an e-commerce tool, mainly because of
the users.

The existing catalog is pretty straight forward, with about 125 products

and aprox 25 options per product.

I would be intersted to hear from anyone who has experience with a project

like this. It seems that FrontPage is the logical tool to build the content.

 

[MD WebsUnlimited.com]

Not quite -- in the next couple of weeks we plan to introduce a product that
will allow you to run your .ASP pages from a CD without any web server.

 

[chris leeds]

there is something that may help you. it's a little "campy" but still cool:

http://www.flipalbum.com/products/cdsc/

I use their "flip album" for kids parties and stuff and remembered seeing
this.....

I have been given the task of building a parts catalog for the company

that employees me. The initial release is to be to be a CD, with a later
effort to pushing this to our web site. We just want to reduce our cost of
business by reducing printing and shipping costs at this time. It is
doubtful this will ever really become an e-commerce tool, mainly because of
the users.

The existing catalog is pretty straight forward, with about 125 products

and aprox 25 options per product.

I would be intersted to hear from anyone who has experience with a project

like this. It seems that FrontPage is the logical tool to build the content.