web database?

[sagey]

i have an idea for a web site that has a database in it

new users sign in and put in their user name, email, location and personal notes.

other users can then search by location and bring up a list of other people from that location.

i'am relatively new to vb and am wondering if it is easy/possible to create a functional website that has this sort of simple db
what software would i need?
can i integrate it with dreamweaver?

any tips would be most gratefully recieved.

Thank you

[mendhak]

It's pretty simple.
For writing the webpages, you'll need to learn ASP. (similar to vb, should b easy to learn) or PHP or Perl....

The database, you'll probably use an access database, and it's possible to access it from your pages. If you're going to learn asp, then in order for you to access the databases, you'll need to learn ADO.

So... Dreamweaver...erm... naah.
if you have visual studio, you'll have visual interdev. you can create asp pages there. I think that's about what you need.

You'll need to go through tutorials first.

asp:
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com
http://www.aspin.com
http://www.asp101.com
http://www.w3schools.com/asp/

ado:
http://www.w3schools.com/ado

and more... do a search.

was that helpful?

[sagey]

Thanks for the reply

i have interdev but it asks for server details when i start a new project and i don't have a server.

all i want to do at the moment is design the site.
so is there a way of doing this in interdev withut having to fill in the server details?

also what is ado in layman terms?

[mendhak]

ADO = ActiveX Data Objects.
I'll explain like this: You have your asp pages. That's all programming. You need to connect to a database. How do you do it? Using ADO. ADO serves as the link between databases and Applications such as ASP or Visual Basic.

As for your visual interdev problem, I have heard this before, and I think you should enter your computers name in place of server name. Strangely, never happened to me.

[sagey]

cheers mendhak

i'll try your suggestion for inter dev tonite.

[JoshT]

Originally posted by sagey
Thanks for the reply

i have interdev but it asks for server details when i start a new project and i don't have a server.

all i want to do at the moment is design the site.
so is there a way of doing this in interdev withut having to fill in the server details?

also what is ado in layman terms?

Cancel the "Project" dialog, and just use "open file" and "new file" from the "file" menu, to just edit ASP pages. It'll put them in a Misc. Files Project that doesn't need to be saved.