A better way?
Nov. 9th, 2006 01:35 pmYears ago I set up a web page to post book recommendations. I put the recommendations in a tiny Access data base and built an ASP page http://www.susandennis.net/books.asp to slice and dice and present the data.
For a variety of reasons, I'm wondering now if there isn't a better, newer, easier, cheaper way.
- The database is really crude. Two tables - Books has 5 fields and 640 entries. Authors has 4 fields (but if the data base was designed correctly it would only need 2) and 323 entries.
- The web page currently offers
- by author
- by type
- by when I read
- I'd love to add some kind of Alpha by title
- I'm paying a hosting company $17.00 a quarter just for this silly book database. (10,000KB basically for the page and the database)
- I use two other hosting companies but neither offer asp pages and I'm not smart enough to figure out how to use PHP or any other database besides Access.
- My ideal would be to have someone build me a page that replicates what I have and adds the alpha by title AND gives me the ability to easily add books either via a website or even manually that would enable me to get rid of this hosting company.
Or anybody have any other ideas on how to present the recommendations of nearly 700 books on a webpage?