[thelist] Web Forms to Access DB?

[Fortune Elkins]

hiya annie!

as a designer, ultradev is the way to go for you, imvho. just download the
30 day free trial. if you're on windows, it'll be so easy, because you
already have access, and you can quickly download and install personal web
server. with these three things, you can in an afternoon do the ud tutorial,
which is so helpful.

look, database work is pretty much always the same. you connect to the db
the same way, no matter what the project. inserting, updating, deleting. .
.these are done the same way, no matter what the project. only the database
names and table and field names change. once you get the idea of it, you're
set. the hard part is the SQL queries. you can make simple ones using ud's
visual query wizard or make more difficult ones in access by dragging and
dropping, turning that into sql, and then pasting that sql back into ud's
wizard. 

i have made quite a few dynamic sites with ud, a ud book from osborne, and a
"for dummies" book in my lap. as long as you don't have to come up with a
really fancy shopping cart (a simple cart is doable in UD) you can make 90%
of what your clients want most of the time yourself in the familiar
dreamweaver design environment. for special or really hard stuff,
subcontract a programmer for a day or two.

tell your client you need two days to research; run through the ud tutorial
in an afternoon, and then you'll see how much is really manageable by
yourself. after that, call the programmer, talk to him about whatever's
outside the scope of ud (though from your description it doesn't really seem
like too much would be) and then call the client back with a yes you can do
it. <grin>

good luck,

f

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