Building a Real Estate Web Site using FrontPage and Access

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CJ

Hi

I'm a part-time web designer and have been asked to develop a real estate
(UK estate agent!) web site which allows visitors to perform basic searches
on an Access database, display the results in summary form, and allow
hyperlinking to a more detailed view of a particular property.

Although I'm pretty conversant with FP2003, and Access, I've never developed
a "web database application" as such. I have set up a simple database
results wizard page, which is fine, but how then could a visitor click on a
"more details" link on a property to receive the full results for that
property from the database?

If anyone can recommend some useful reading on this I'd be grateful. I have
noticed Jim Buyens has a book called "Web Database Development Step by Step
..NET" - would this be useful to me?

Many thanks.

CJ
 
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chris leeds

my recommendation would be to go to sites like www.fuzzysoftware.com
www.aspin.com and look for an existing application. there are a number of
good ones out there. buy it and go to work. it'll be a heck of a lot
easier and in all likelihood better in the end.
I remember seeing a nice app for real-estate and it has 20/20 in the name.
I looked pretty hard but never did the job so it'd be a good place to start.
IMHO
HTH
 
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C Dixon

If your database includes the hyperlinks, you can have
them displayed as part of your results. You just have to
format that cell in FP. Right click on the databse
results cell that has your "more details" hyperlink, then
click database column value properties, then check the
box that has column value contains html.
 
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CJ

If your database includes the hyperlinks, you can have
them displayed as part of your results. You just have to
format that cell in FP. Right click on the databse
results cell that has your "more details" hyperlink, then
click database column value properties, then check the
box that has column value contains html.

That's great, many thanks for your help (and the others).

CJ
 

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