My company makes web sites for clients much like yours, small to medium business ecommerce sites, and we use databases, MySQL, Postgre, PHP 5. Ultimate Office is one of our sites of this nature. I am more in usability and marketing, but I also have always worked with database marketing firms. On 1/25/07, Joel D Canfield <joel at streamliine.com> wrote: > how do people decide when to switch on the > > database, as opposed > > to just a folder full of files? > > > -- Steven Streight aka Vaspers the Grate Web Usability. Blog Revolution. Online Marketing. EMAIL steven [dot] streight [at] gmail [dot] com http://www.vaspersthegrate.blogspot.com http://www.blogcorevalues.blogspot.com http://electrica.wordpress.com http://steven.streight.googlepages.com/ceobloggingguide http://my.opera.com/vaspers88/blog http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=vaspers http://www.jejunejumpers.blogspot.com http://droppingoutoftheblogosphere.pbwiki.com