The extreme basics

I am very new to this web development thing and have just started to play with Frontpage 2000. I have a an Access 2000 database which I want to use in conjunction with a web front end (to be constructed in Frontpage). There is no server involved, its just a project on my home desktop computer running either XP Home or ME.

I want to be able to add, delete, amend and query the data in the database from the web page, and understand that I need to use ASPs. I have created an ASP in Frontpage which has a database region within it connected to my local database (I set up an ODBC connection and selected that when choosing the database rather than selecting the mdb directly).

Basically I am at a loss. When viewing the web page the field headings appear, but no data. I gather from reading help files, etc that this is because I need some additional software to make it all work. If anyone can give me a few pointers as to how to get this to work, please let me know.

Best regardsyou HAVE to have a server because ASP is a "server-side" technology. you need IIS or Personal Web Server to run classic ASP, and IIS or Cassini to run ASP.NET. also, if you're not using ASP.NET (which is what it sounds like) please visit a forum for classic ASP.

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You also might want to look at the Web Matrix tutorials - we have some dataBase examples you might find useful.

HTH

JD

http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/guidedtour/section2/newconn.aspx