Does Anyone Know?

[Need2Know]

Is Ms Access capable of handling the load of over 900 html
pages to run a database to update a website?

Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Need2Know

 

[Tim Ferguson]

Is Ms Access capable of handling the load of over 900 html
pages to run a database to update a website?

Wouldn't a web server be better? I hear Apache is very good...


Tim F

 

[Need2Know]

Maybe.

here's my situation. and maybe a better question.

My friend owns a vitamin store.

He is needing to put up a website, that will eventually
have over 1000 products that he needs to put on pages-
with the information put into tables.

My web design skills are 8 yrs old.
Never got into databases since late 80's.

He is running windows 98.
I am running windows millenium.

We both have access.

it seems like too much work to design all 1000+ pages and
update by hand.

He suggested somehow using a database to put in all of the
information- to update the pages.

We will be renting a .com .net or .org from a "webhost"
site. But his company is young so we need to keep the work
and maint in-house, until the profits pay off the
principal, and cost of the server space.

Any suggeestions?

Many thanks!

TG

 

[Tim Ferguson]

Any suggeestions?

There are lots of ready-made commercial website packages, some of them
shareware and probably even some free ones. I know I saw one on a magazine
cover disk not long ago. As far as I can gather, you pick the look-and-
feel, drop in the pictures and the descriptions, and stuff the whole lot on
the server. Have you looked round winfiles? Followed up the "powered by
SmithWeb" stickers on the bottom of other sites?

If it was my business, I really wouldn't want to bet it on someone who had
not done database design... Sometimes it really is cheaper to pay someone
who really knows what they are doing, and whom you can sue later!

Just a thought


Tim F