Simple Weblog using Access???

[zeeforel]

Hi to you all,

It may sound silly to those of you familiar with dynamic webpages (and blogs etc.), but I would like to use Access to:
+ store project activities (description, date worked on, which project)
+ store project issues (description, date worked on, which project, issue solved on)
+ store project document titles

with the intention of contructing a nice project weblog, by using the VBA capabilities to generate HTML pages.

Does anybody have experience with this? Are there any tutorials available for creating customised HTML pages from Access tables. I have Access 97.

Many thanks.

Marcel

 

[maxmangion]

i think ASP or ASP.NET is what you are looking for. if you do a google search there are several tutorials on ASP.

 

[zeeforel]

This ASP really sounds interesting but as far as I know it requires some other server application on our company network, like Internet Information Server. I am actually trying to avoid that (Red tape ...).

I intend to build a very small shared database (on our shared fileserver) on which the HTML pages are generated by VBA in Access, each time after a new entry is performed in the weblogdatabase.

Any suggestions?

 

[maxmangion]

did you consider using the Data Access Pages ?

 

[zeeforel]

Data Access pages?? What is that?

 

[maxmangion]

if you have Access 2000 or higher, in the database window click on Pages and you can create pages for the web from their!