newbie question on asp

I am new to asp, and want to put a simple database on the web so the users
can search certain items.
I downloaded webmatrix in order to learn more about asp & databases. In
order to put it on a webserver, i have
made an account with brinkster (www.brinkster.com) because they support asp
for free.
Can somebody tell me if this is a good choise?
Or even better, somebody who used this combination (webmatrix & brinkster)
before, and can give me some tips?
thanks.

Re: newbie question on asp

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:29:22 +0100, "dirk"

Re: newbie question on asp

<<
I am new to asp, and want to put a simple database on the web so the
users can search certain items.
>>

Here is something I put together about ASP that hopefully might help
somehow.

You and others can have access to a database hosted on the Web from any
location that has a browser with an Internet connection.

The Web database concept makes sense if you and your people want to do
work in various locations in or outside the office and still be
"plugged" in.

For example you could have employees enter timesheets or have sales reps
log their contacts. Or perhaps you'd like customers to be able to check
the status of their orders online without having to call the company.

If you want a Web database, typically what would happen is that a
database such as Access or MySQL (basically just consisting of tables)
would be put on the Web.

Then "dynamic" Web pages (such as classic ASP pages which include
VBScript, HTML, and/or JavaScript) would be created acting like the old
desktop database's queries, forms, and reports to access the database -
all hosted on a Web Server.

Dynamic Web pages are similar in many ways to regular HTML pages. But
they are "live" because the user can read from and write to information
in the database. An example where you can login and add, edit, or view
fictional customers and invoices is at
http://www.bullschmidt.com/login.asp

Not all Web hosts will handle dynamic Web pages but many do. The Web
hosts that can handle ASP pages usually have a Windows 2000 or Windows
2003 operating system running an IIS Web server.

Here are a few good ASP sites:
o ASP101 Samples - http://www.asp101.com/samples
o W3Schools ASP Tutorial - http://www.w3schools.com/asp
o Microsoft VBScript Language Reference -
http://msdn.microsoft.com/scripting/default.htm?/scripting/V BScript/doc/
vbscripttoc.htm

And the following newsgroup is good:
microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general

Or for a "quick and dirty" generic ASP open source solution to putting
databases on the Web (often works well for the admin area of a Web site
which doesn't need to look too unique) that just requires setting up a
configuration page for each table or query and uploading the database to
the Web as long as there is an autonumber field in each table (and
you'll probably also separately want to create login capabilities),
perhaps try something like this:
GenericDB by Eli Robillard
http://www.genericdb.com and then click on the Tips link to see an
example

Best regards,
J. Paul Schmidt, Freelance ASP Web Developer
http://www.Bullschmidt.com
ASP Design Tips, ASP Web Database Demo, Free ASP Bar Chart Tool...


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