in reply to Building a catalog

You might consider statically publishing your pages then if that's possible; i.e., don't worry about hooking the web server up to the data directly -- just generate the pages you need from the database every time data is added, then copy (publish) those to the live site by copying the static HTML pages over. There are more sites than you might think that work this way. It depends on how much you need to do against the data; e.g., if you need advanced searching this may not work. Then again, it may if you run a page indexer (many free ones available) against the published pages. This option often looks cumbersome and clunky until you start scoping out the alternatives.

I'd at least line up the pros and cons of the static publish approach if that's at all an option. If not, you have several other options I'm aware of:

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Re: Re: Building a catalog
by cdguitar01 (Monk) on Feb 07, 2003 at 19:09 UTC
    Thanks for the tips steves. I'm looking into a few of your suggestions now.

    Chrtis DeGrace