Re: Creating database for web page

Yeah.  That's what I have.


Brian Kuhl
seacow(at)cwix.com
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/6067
http://membersrotfl.com/seacow

-----Original Message-----
From: John Posada <john(at)tdandw.com>
To: seacow <seacow(at)mci2000.com>
Cc: Angela K. Secrest Bornsheuer <abornshe(at)coleman.pvam.edu>; Guy Hoyle
<ghoyle1(at)airmail.net>; hwg-theory(at)hwg.org <hwg-theory(at)hwg.org>;
seacow(at)cwix.com <seacow(at)cwix.com>
Date: Friday, December 18, 1998 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: Creating database for web page


>Guy, Brian...and people.
>
>Since I've been watching this discussion go on for awhile, and since I am
an
>Amazon associate, I thought I'd place an example of the Amazon search form
and a
>direct link to a particular book to see if it's that big a deal.  Took me
about
>10 minutes to place both.
>
>If you'd like to see what it would look like, check toward the bottom of
the
>following page:
>
>http://www.tdandw.com/lighthouse
>
>John Posada
>
>seacow wrote:
>
>> Amazon.com has a feature by which people can search Amazon.com's database
>> from your site as though you were searching from theirs.  If your looking
>> for something that will generate titles that you recomend, I'd suggest
that
>> you just list them.  I can't imagine you recomending *that* many books.
>>
>> Brian Kuhl
>> seacow(at)cwix.com
>> http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/6067
>> http://membersrotfl.com/seacow
>>
>>
>> >Guy,
>> >
>> >I think Amazon.com makes this fairly easy and automatic for you, unless
you
>> >wanted something far beyond the services that they provide for selling
the
>> >books that you recommend.
>> >
>> >Let me know how you finally do this, if you don't mind.
>> >
>> >Angela
>> >
>>
>> >
>> >>Please forgive me if this is a double post.
>> >>
>> >>I want to be able to create a database for ordering books from
Amazon.com
>> >>via my website, and I'm a rank beginner at publishing databases on the
>> Web.
>> >>The database itself would include book info such as title, author,
price,
>> a
>> >>brief
>> >>description, a few keywords, and a link to amazon.com. I'd like the
>> >>users of the website to be able to retrieve a list of books by
selecting
>> >>certain
>> >>keywords (such as "history", "reference", or the author, title, etc.).
>> >>
>> >>I know that Access has a "save as HTML" option, but I wanted to get
some
>> >>advice from the list before I actually begin to build the damn thing.
>> What
>> >>am I up against here?
>> >>
>> >>Guy
>
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