Re: FN-FORUM Database Needed? (Was RE:Data Entry)

date posted 5th July 2000 16:24

answers to your questions:
1) You're right about Coldfusion although one of its strengths is that as a
newbie you'll probably get up and running quickly with it (relatively
speaking, lol)! Of course you will be sacrificing flexibility. Don't
discount Access especially if you've used it before, the volume wouldn't be
a problem and if there were only one or two people editing records
concurrently then record locking wouldn't be a problem.
In fact if you don't mind MS bloatware and horrible HTML code then you
could quickly cobble something together using Access for the back end and
Frontpage (shudder) for producing a suitable asp page for the front. Of
course this would necessitate running the whole shebang on an NT server.
2) Easiest option by far would be to let me do it all for you, I can
promise a fair price and guarantee work of the highest quality. Mail me
direct if you're interested [EMAIL REMOVED]
Best of Luck :-)
At 11:34 05/07/00 +0100, you wrote:
>Source OS *has* to be Windoze (i.e. The trained monkey will be entering the
>data on a win platform). Target OS can be anything. Apps will be bought for
>the job. Several thousand entrys, possibly as high as 20K. Budget is
>ummm.....gimme some prices and I'll smile or scream ;o)
>
>Opinions so far:
>- Coldfusion is Pants, but no more so than badly handled MySQL/PHP...
>- Access/Excel have been mentioned, but I assume they are no way near up to
>this kind of volume....
>
>If I rephrase the initial question.
>1. Which would be the easiest for me to pick up, yet still suited to the
>job? (Windows child im afraid, but some unix skills)
>2. Which is best suited for the job if I contract it out and who wants to do
>it??
>
>Cheers,
>
>Jon Hadley
>
>Designdojo.com Ltd.
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>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Lindsay Davies [EMAIL REMOVED]
>
> >>Apologies in advance for a slightly dumb question, but I'm a Graphic
> >>Designer, not a database monkey ;o)
> >>
> >>As part of a site I'm designing I need to collate a large number of
> >>addresses, phone numbers and one extra field..What is the best program to
> >>collate the information in, that will allow it to be easily presented on
>the
> >>web? Ease of entry and speed of presentation are the major factors.
> >> You'll probably need to give the list a little more to go on here.
> >>You give no indication of amount of data, source OS, target OS,
> >> existing apps, data manipulation, integrity checking, budget...etc.
> >> Have you tried it in excel,filemaker, access?
>
>
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