Building Access Web Sites

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Summary: Mostly basic Access; poor English, badly edited
Review: I agree with EVB on both content and quality. Most of the book covers basic Access info and is so badly written as to be nearly unreadable. Apparently, the publishers were so greedy to get yet one more Internet book for market that they forgot to assign an editor.

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Summary: Not what I expected...
Review: I was very disappointed in this book. It gives a brief summary of the workings of Access, which I already knew. However, it is very skimpy on the technical details involved in publishing a database to the web. There has to be better books out there, somewhere.

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Summary: 1% of what you need to build Web Sites with MS Access.
Review: This book does a decent job of introducing the theory of HTML and CGI development, particularly as related to Web-enabled databases. It provides a laundry list of products on the market. However, it barely mentions MS Access at all. It seems like a general book about Web databases with a few pages about Access thrown in.

It provides no particulars on linking a database with a web server. Basically it says "go write yourself a custom CGI to access your database, in the programming language of your choice."

The reason this book is particularly unhelpful is that it is of no help to the beginning/intermediate Access developer looking to provide Web access for their databases. It suggests developing a CGI to connect to Access databases. Shockingly, there is NO mention of the most obvious ways to connect to Access databases--ASP and IDC/HTX pages. Nor does it mention the easiest way to Web-enable an Access database--the Publish to the Web Wizard. What is really needed is a book that explains the intricacies of the Web Wizard and ASP as it relates to Access development.

Contrary to what the review says, this book has 481 pages, including index.

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Summary: reading was a waste of time
Review: This books talks much about substantial things on building web-sites. It gives an overview of html, cgi and ms access, tells basic rules how to make web-sites with database, how to organize that and so on BUT it really doesn't tell the most important thing: How exactly to create a perl program that can query an access database! I simply wanted to build a small database and query it with perl, I couldn't reach that target with this book. So it was a waste of time.

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Summary: What A Pleasant Surprise - Great Book!!!
Review: This is one of the best technical books I have ever read. The numerous examples provided are right on the money, and the descriptions are more than enough to illuminate the topics presented.

Although I knew quite a bit about MS Access programming before I read this book, I still learned more. I didn't read it though to learn about MS Access, I read it to learn about how to integrate a MS Access database into a Web application.

My only wish for this book is that MS Press would have published it --- they need more high quality books like this to be published under their press!

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Summary: What A Pleasant Surprise - Great Book!!!
Review: To be succinct, this book will not help you build web sites using Access. It has a small chapter on using Hahtsite to connect to an Access database. It has more data on using cgi programs to access back end databases from HTML forms. Although, there is nothing about actually creating a cgi program. It has virtually nothing about really using Access on a website. This book was a total disappointment and a complete waste of money.