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Subject:RE: Designing a Very Specific Web Interface From:"Gilger.John" <JGilger -at- acresgaming -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 5 Dec 2000 16:52:06 -0800
If you go to www.devshed.com you will find some tutorials on designing web
sites that store the information in a relational database - MySQL, Oracle,
DB2, MS-SQL, etc. - and controling the retrieval of information using a
scripting language such as php, perl, python, etc. (Maybe ASP will work with
MS-SQL. I know VB6 does.)
IIRC, there was a series a few months back detailing the use of php and
mySQL, both are open source, therefore a popular combo.
They are pretty basic, but have enough info that most web designers can
figure out how to get a functional site put together.
IBM has some tools available that are supposed to do the same thing using
WebSphere(?) and DB2. Check the IDM developer series.
John Gilger
Techical Writer
Acres Gaming, Inc.
702.914.5585
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ruth Lundquist [mailto:rlundquist -at- prosarcorp -dot- com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 02:27 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Designing a Very Specific Web Interface
My company builds databases of documents for clients (we don't author the
documents--they come from a variety of sources), which the clients access
via a secure web site hosted by us. We call these databases "libraries" and
customers currently search for documents in their libraries using a
remarkably ugly & unintuitive interface that we've designed.
My question is this:
Do any of you have suggestions for designing search engine-like web pages?
Other than simply looking at how other search engines are designed? Or
would it make more sense to design a more application-like interface with
the criteria listed in drop-down boxes and with fields for entering
specific information? (FYI, we will build the interface, not purchase a
search engine to run against our database.)
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