[AccessD] Web Project

Karen,

Just for arguments sake, how long is "very long"?  Although I'm always up
for bells and whistles when it comes to applications, sometimes a
de-normalized flat file table will suffice.  This approach allows a user
with no prior experience to learn by browsing the data without having to
know a starting name or its correct spelling.  A bonus is that text only
pages load significantly faster.  I'm assuming that the data you describe is
fairly static;)  Therefore, you could provide the user three pages all
containing the same data, but each sorted alphabetically by a different
column.


Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: Karen Rosenstiel [mailto:karenr7 at oz.net] 
Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 7:22 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: [AccessD] Web Project


Hi gang,
I have a web project I am working on and would like your suggestions about
how to do a part of it.

I have a very long list of the Wade-Giles, Pinyin (both Chinese
transliterations into a European alphabet) and Romaji (ditto Japanese)
versions of Chinese and Japanese names in parallel columns. These are the
names of old Zen masters from the last 1,800 or so years. Different books
transliterate the names in different ways base on the above systems. This is
very confusing for the average person who is not a language scholar to
follow.

How would you go about setting up a little web search tool so that the user
could input a name and get the other variations?

TIA

Karen Rosenstiel
Seattle WA USA
karenr7 at oz dot net (Spam blocker -- resolve into a real email address) 

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