[thelist] CMS in ASP

phil crawford crawford_phil at hotmail.com
Fri Feb 1 12:16:01 CST 2002


>I've got a client who wants to put lecture transcripts online. 10 lectures
>total
>
>Currently, their site is done in ASP with an Access backend running on
>IIS5, and it does *not* have an existing search engine of any kind. What
>they (and I) would like to do is make the transcripts searchable.
>
>My question is this: what's the best way to do that? Would it be easier
>(programmatically speaking) if I put the content into a database and
>performed the search via SQL, or leave it in static files and parse
>through them with the FSO? What's the best way to go about this?


What if you were to just put the articles in static pages and utilize one of
the free or low cost web search engines available.  Some of these are only
$20/month and work quite well.  A search engine that indexes the content
would be superior to anything that could be built using sql and an access
db.

-phil

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