The brief era of static Web pages is drawing to a close. As the novelty of merely having a Web presence wears off, companies are beginning to focus their attention on building useful Web sites.
Unfortunately, publishing data on static Web pages is a maintenance nightmare for sites larger than a few HTML pages. If a company is publishing its data as HTML, someone ultimately has the task of ensuring that all those HTML pages are kept up to date.
Web databases provide a means of keeping your web site data current without having to update HTML pages. All updating is done in the database program itself, such as Access or Approach. The updated database is then transferred to the web server.
Connecting Web servers to databases is one of the hottest topics in Web development today. Why? Because most of the interesting and usesful information is located in databases.
Today's web sites provide dynamic information that may need to be updated weekly, daily, hourly, or even minute by minute. Active Server Pages (ASP) provides a great way of creating dynamic web sites. ASP technology provides a means of displaying database information on your web site which can include: items for sale, available inventory, employee rosters, schedules, or any other information that is typically stored in databases.
If your company needs to provide database information on your web site, contact us, we will be glad to discuss with you the best methods of getting your information online. We have included a very basic asset inventory database demo below which demonstrates how effective this technology can be.