Creating a web site that can access a MS database (not using frontpage

[simoncs]

Help!!!

Thought i would try to earn some brownie points at work by creating a web site (intranet page) for our dept and have part of it link to a helpdesk style MS database.

All good in theory, but a few hurdles in the way.
1. being i am reasonably good with getting to grips with applications but can't write any code. So was looking to use a user friendly package.
2. Can't use a package like frontpage, which could practically do the job for me, as the server that it is being posted on does not support frontpage extensions.
3. I only have an access97 database (well will do if i ever manage to build the bloody thing!)

So i guess my question is - is there a software package i could use to write my intranet/web page, that part of it could link to a database. (when i mean link - i mean have a web GUI to update and view the database fields)

thanks

Simon

 

[BNPMike]

The clear winner in this competition is... well you guessed. It's Access (a well know product by Microsoft).

Obtain Access 2000 as a minimum and you have Data Access Pages. You need absolutely zip in terms of programming skills and you can set up swish intranet views in minutes. All your users need is Office Web components. May take a while to get your technical people to load the bits (unless you have access to Office discs), but it'll be quicker and cheaper than most, if not every, other option.

 

[Kahlor]

Can't help you with the intranet site, but for helpdesk db we've been using one from

http://www.liberum.org/

It is free, it has the Access db already set up and the front-end web pages. It was pretty easy to configure and start using. The difficult part for us has been getting our users to break their habit of stopping us in the hall/breakroom or calling us on the phone.

 

[simoncs]

thanks for the help guys