How to create a database web application

1. Select which database would be the most feasible for the application. :)
2. Determine how the data is going to be used. Are you searching through records, updating records, or simply extracting content from the database to post onto a web page.
3. Once you've entered your data you'll have to then transfer the database onto the host server into a secure directory. (Find out if the directory is secure by asking your Host)
4. Set up a DSN (Data Source Name) or a method of connecting to the remote database.
5. Start coding your ASP.
- Create a connection to the database.
- Create a recordset
- SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, etc... data from the table where the data is stored.
6. Once the data has been pulled and extracted from the database then you're ready to insert the recordset values onto the web page.

SAMS Developing E-Commerce Web Sites with ASP in 21 days is a great resource.

I hope this helps and that I answered your question.

Assumption : .NET environment
* Use Visio to design your site with all functionalities.
* separate process of page design and business logic.
* use your design and flash dept to do all the design.
* use UML menu in visio to automatically generate code for the project plan you developed. visio creates most of the work.
* it should be your job to get pgmrs to plug the business logic into the developed system.
* once done xcopy the whole application from the dev folder to live virtual folder in IIS server.
* link the main page to existing web application or change the startup page of IIS to the new application.
* browsing every page first time will be slower as IIS will compile the asp first time.
** Congrats you are done with one biggest project. Believe me if you have basic undestanding of .NET env you can do man months job[Java env] in man hours.

RV