Finding Needles in a WWW Haystack

Design, Technical, and Management Issues in a Corporate Web Site

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* I’m not going to get into the technical details of how these databases work. Laura Lemay’s book “Teach Yourself More Web Publishing in a Week with HTML” provided the basis (the name/address/phone number lookup database example).

* I use Excel or MS Access to maintain the data off-line. The Access databases use the report function to wrap HTML code around data fields. The Excel databases are linked in a mailmerge with Word to add HTML.

* The Perl script resides in the CGI-BIN directory on our server. It requires Perl 5 and uses a popular data parsing routine called “cgi-lib”. My only functional modification to Laura’s example has been to add “logical AND” capability.