I think I've heard of web pages being based on a Access file for the
menus\submenus.
I also want a phone directory, and I want it stored in an Access DB so
it's easy to update.
I suspect you're confusing the difference between a development tool like MS
access, and that of the database engine that ships with MS access called
jet.
For example if you've ever built a switchboard in access, you'll notice that
the menu options are actually stored in a database table, and not in access.
So in some cases instead of having you build a form with some menu options
on it, you simply store those options in the table and write code to read
that menu and then your code actually creates the menu on the fly.
so it is conceivable that somebody made written a web site, and they used a
mdb file to store some of those options, but when they do that there
actually not using MS access as a development tool anymore at all, and in
fact they will not have even installed MS access on their web server at all.
the developers like the cottages stored the menu options in a plain old text
file, but maybe somebody came along and decided to use a mdb file, or
perhaps excel to save those options. (but they're not using excel to build
their website, and they're not using the text file to run their website, and
they're not using access either).
So, when you use the jet database engine to store your table information on
a web site, you're not using the MS access forms, you're not using MS access
reports, and you're not using the code that you write in MS access.
Because of the above, you're not really using MS access at all, and that's
why most people for web sites will use SQL server, mySQL, or some other
database engine that allows you to store the information easily.
In other words MS access is not a web development tool, it has absolutely no
relationship to the web, it is absolutely the wrong tool to use, and is the
wrong technology.
You'll have to adopt some type of web based development tool, such as
asp.net, or something else, but unfortunately ms-access is simply the wrong
developers tool and technology for web based applications.
