Re: databases and websites - looking for tutorials

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-- Dave Neal

At 12:18 PM 3/13/00 -0500, Bob Unger wrote:
>I maintain a website for a Blues music society and I've been asked by the
>board members if I can make the membership info available to the board
>through the website so they can update it, print out labels from the file,
>etc... Now, I'm a newbie at building databases and an embryo when it comes
>to integrating a database with a web site.  
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>First question:
>Can anybody point me to a few tutorials where I can start learning the
>basics of database/web integration.
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>Second question:
>The society's membership file is currently in a MS Word document (I dont
>know why it was created in Word) and it's a mess.  I'll need to build a new
>database but I'm not sure which database software to use. Someone told me
>that I need to use ASP for database/web integration but my web host
>provider (ValueWeb) does not support ASP.  Is ASP a neccessity in
>integrating databases/websites?  Am I out of luck if I cant use ASP?  
>
>So I guess my question is - can anyone recommend a database program (does
>not have to be very sophisticated) that does not rely on ASP to integrate
>it with a web site.
>
>Thanks for any help you can give,
>Bob Unger
>webmaster(at)NYBluesSociety.org
>www.NYBluesSociety.org
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