make a website program from access? Is it possible

[Guest]

I want to use access 2003 the create a program. It will consist of 2 things,
one would be a screen with drop down, and fill in the blank options and
another will be an area to attach pictures. once they fill in / select the
options and attach the picture then it will dump it to the web in the form of
a new webpage, and correspond with previous posts they made this way. My
question is... is this possible with this program and how hard is it to do?
im fairly competent on the computer and pick up fast.

 

[Albert D.Kallal]

no, ms-access is not a web tool at all (and, there is BILLIONS of web tools
and development systems out there...in fact..that is about all we see
today).

Ms-access does have a feature called DAP (data access pages). However, DAP's
requite the user to have parts of office installed, and for all intensive
purpose you really need to be hosting your own web site. For a internal web
site, and assuming each desktop has office installed, then a DAP is
possible. But, really, if you are trying to build a web application, then
ms-access is the wrong tool.....

however, if you have your own web space, and are a competent programmer in
ms-access, then you can certainly setup a report, or even code to "generate"
a static HTML page..and then you simply FTP that web page to your site.
(however, you would also have to update some page on the web site that has
links to the page you just updated...else it would not be much use).

So, if you are fluent in VBA..and have some HTML skills, the above is
doable...but you likely best to use some tools that are more web based in
the first place (why not build the form...and the "browse" for file stuff on
the web system - then you don't even need ms-access...).