Pub data from Access or Excel via FP?

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Tim

I use FP 2003 to publish a uncomplicated, modest sized web site on Comcast
here in the S.F. Bay Area based around my SCUBA diving and UW Photography
hobbies. Comcast provides limited FP extension support but no CGI.

I used to use an early version of NetObjects Fusion when I had the site
hosted with Compuserve years ago. Fusion allowed me to create simple flat
file databases (6 or 7 fields per record) and use them to publish my dive
logs to the site so a visitor could go to one page and flip through the
details of each dive quite elegantly.

I see no way, save hosting on a CGI supported site and me learning LOTS more
about web publishing than I have time for, to duplicate this capability.

Can anyone suggest a way I could either use Excel or Access data accessed by
FP to do this or some other technique to simulate this? If you'd like to see
the data you can go to:

http://home.comcast.net/~tb0yd/lc_2003.htm

.... and see where I've typed in the log data in a long text page. Yes, it
works but is not as nice as the 'clink to go to the next dive' arrangement
I'd had previously.

Thanks for any suggestions,
Tim
 
In order to use Access or Excel (not recommended) you site must be hosted on
a Windows IIS server with ASP support, so unless Comcast offer that, the
best option would be to cut and paste your data from Excel into a page in
FP, then format as needed.
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Thank you for the rapid response Thomas. I thought as much. <sigh>

Guess my visitors will have to make do with the 'organic' approach of text
down the page. <g>

Thanks again,
Tim
 
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