online catalogue

[nswan]

what is the best way of setting up an online catalogue that is easy to update. At the moment I have the data in Excel and just export it as a html file. I need a better way of doing it as eventually I want to set up online ordering. The catalogue is massive by the way, and is quite often updated.

Any tips, solutions, languages to use, books to read would be most useful. I'm not a beginner at programming, but lack knowledge about complex online stuff.

thanks in advance

nick

[vbfirelfy]

Well, I would do it in a very illogical and perhaps foolish manner.

I would create a Visual Basic Application to auto generate the HTML pages, and I would link to an access database, so you could just browse through the D-base on your Prog, push save and it would export as HTML automatically,

Advantages: Easier to customise, add new fields, do Multiple pages, update.

DisAdvantages: Harder to setup the package, time consuming, will *probably* take up a lot of processing power to generate the pages.

Well thats my input, im sure others will have a better way, good luck.