Expert: Hari Priya - 11/10/2009

Question
I am trying to make a database  to store information with active server pages and/or html. I'm not sure how to start; can you help?  

Answer
Dear Brandon,

Sure, I will assist you. From your question I do not know about your knowledge level about html/asp. So, I would like you to learn the basics of asp and database before you go into advanced. Please go through this tutorial, it is easy to learn asp: http://www.w3schools.com/asp/default.asp

For testing asp pages, you should have IIS installed in your computer. Make sure it is installed and running. IIS comes with Windows installation Disk. Once you do these preliminary steps, you should decide what type of data you will be storing in the database and how you want your interface to look like. Design the form layout of your interface layout in a paper, and start doing the forms in html. We need asp only for submitting the form to database. Choose which database you prefer. For simple applications, you can go for MS Access.

Once you start building your applications, if you need any help/advice/assistance, please ask me any question and I will be able to help you.

If you already have knowledge in asp, please give more specific details of what exactly you want to do, so that I can give you a solution. If you have any web page which you are working currently, please post that code too.

Cheers
Priya