UKNM: Re: Online Database Tool

[Archie Bell]

We looked briefly at the Alma Page Generator which lets you build fields

from an Access database into a static web page (as opposed to generated

on-the-fly for each page visitor).


The application we had in mind was to keep a database updated offline and

use Alma to periodically assemble a web page containing a "snapshot" of the

state of that database. All manual as opposed to automated page assembly,

but not too onerous for the small quantity of data involved.


This was to be a means to refresh the web page from data which changed

slowly over the course of the day, while allowing a fast-loading

design-light page which was adequately up-to-date for practical user needs -

download speed was far more important than personalising the page with

unique information sets per user.


I say "was to have been" - the dotcom feeding frenzy overtook our clients'

project and nothing has come of it - yet! We'd found nothing unsuitable with

the Alma software for our requirements, but without knowing more about your

intended application we can't comment. Worth looking at with a free 30-day

trial and then only about �30 from http://www.alma.co.uk.


Happy to help!


And by the way, how come some folk have forgotten the use of the apostrophe

and the quotation mark? Is this a new media backlash against the

greengrocers' apostrophe of much-loved "potato's" fame? I don't think it's

clever or cool, and it just makes the text damn hard to read. Personal

opinion only!


Cheers!


Archie Bell



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