[thelist] Excel to WWW

Christian Heilmann codepo8 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 16 08:09:38 CST 2005


On 12/16/05, Jay Blanchard <jay.blanchard at thermon.com> wrote:
> [snip]
> Now it may be my ignorance talking here, but the only way I know how to
> transform this thing into a web app is to take each cell one by one,
> figure out how that number was generated, then write a php function for
> it. Sooner or later I'll have a web version of this.
>
> Is there any easier way to skin this cat?
> [/snip]
>
> Make the spreadsheet downloadable. You can zip it and place a link to it on
> the web server in under 2 minutes. Of course, if you are planning to
> maintain the data in a database it isn't an option.

If that is not an option, you might want to re-think the user
interaction here. 65 questions on one web page are just annoying. Some
proper Information Architecture and collating would make it a lot
easier to use the app.

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