Database driven web site

[steve wheller]

Hi,

I want to create a website where people can sign up to the site and put
there company details on it. Then when a user searches for a particular
service, e.g electrician, they can search by area or post code and then the
web site will bring back all the electricians in their area.

Also what I want to do is then allow the user to back on to the web site and
let them be able to put up a review on the service they used and rate the
service using a star rating.

I am not a programmer so I have never done this before. I have designed web
sites but not database driven ones. Is there a simple way of doing this or
there some software I could use with dreamweaver that will help me do this.

Regards

Steve

[Steven Scaife]

I am wanting to change the web site for the company i work for into a
database driven web site. This isn't a problem as i have created several
ASP areas for the web site.

What i want to do is re-write the website so it is easier to manage. It
needs to use style sheets to make it easier to update. Then i thought why
not create one page that looks in a database for the text and images.

Then all that needs to be done is create a form so that people can enter the
text into the page it inserts into the database then the new pages are
visible.

Only when i come to write it, i realise that we resell 15 products, 6
monthly releases of products etc. Basically i wanted to replicate the
Autodesk web site, using ids and product names to make my job easier. I
have just graduated and can write and delete to databases, but we never got
told or shown how to do this idea of mine. Sorry this is long winded but
if anyone understands what i want to do can they point me to a web resource
that demonstrates it.

Thanks

Steven Scaife

[Jeff Cochran]

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 15:49:52 +0100, "Steven Scaife" <nospam> wrote:

>I am wanting to change the web site for the company i work for into a
>database driven web site. This isn't a problem as i have created several
>ASP areas for the web site.
>
>What i want to do is re-write the website so it is easier to manage. It
>needs to use style sheets to make it easier to update. Then i thought why
>not create one page that looks in a database for the text and images.
>
>Then all that needs to be done is create a form so that people can enter the
>text into the page it inserts into the database then the new pages are
>visible.
>
>Only when i come to write it, i realise that we resell 15 products, 6
>monthly releases of products etc. Basically i wanted to replicate the
>Autodesk web site, using ids and product names to make my job easier. I
>have just graduated and can write and delete to databases, but we never got
>told or shown how to do this idea of mine. Sorry this is long winded but
>if anyone understands what i want to do can they point me to a web resource
>that demonstrates it.

Look for any portal or content management system, and possibly a
shopping cart script. Aspin.com is a decent place to start.

Jeff

[Bullschmidt]

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Planet Source Code
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Best regards,
J. Paul Schmidt, Freelance ASP Web Designer
[url]http://www.Bullschmidt.com[/url]
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[Suvra Barua]

Hi,

I can give show you an easy way to do it. You May not like it but it
is better than nothing. You can create a drop down you form and list
the entire. So that you customer not going to type what is not there
and it also make sure customer always going to get product when they
press search rather than making one key word by them self. All you
have to do is just populate your dropdown menu. It is better to get
something instead of getting, "No results were found for your search
". And you have a big advantage because you have only 15 products not
50. If it works go for it if not please try do download some sample
code.

Start from: [url]http://www.planet-source-code.com[/url]
[url]http://www.aspalliance.com/[/url]
[url]http://www.aspalliance.com/[/url]
( By the way i was thinking you are working with ASP )



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"Steven Scaife" <nospam> wrote in message news:<eVEl9OUVEHA.3596@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl>...

> I am wanting to change the web site for the company i work for into a
> database driven web site. This isn't a problem as i have created several
> ASP areas for the web site.
>
> What i want to do is re-write the website so it is easier to manage. It

> needs to use style sheets to make it easier to update. Then i thought why
> not create one page that looks in a database for the text and images.
>
> Then all that needs to be done is create a form so that people can enter the
> text into the page it inserts into the database then the new pages are
> visible.
>
> Only when i come to write it, i realise that we resell 15 products, 6
> monthly releases of products etc. Basically i wanted to replicate the
> Autodesk web site, using ids and product names to make my job easier. I
> have just graduated and can write and delete to databases, but we never got
> told or shown how to do this idea of mine. Sorry this is long winded but
> if anyone understands what i want to do can they point me to a web resource
> that demonstrates it.
>
> Thanks
>
> Steven Scaife