Database Back Ends Provide Great Functionality, More Control

Web sites often include forms for collecting information from your users. Sometimes this data is sent back to the organization via email or written to log files. In many cases this information is stored in backend Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS), making the data easier to use for other processes. Web-based stores and purchasing systems, such as Amazon and Dell, use relational databases to collect and store information from users like you.

Here are a few ways in which Relational Databases can be used to support a web:

• To generate web pages (static HTML pages) based on your database's contents.
• To generate static reports that can be posted to your web site as PDF reports.
• With data entry forms that collect and store data in your database, and after entry, provide a variety of views of your data in meaningful forms.
• To support a web site with both static and dynamic pages, where the dynamic pages are built with data in the relational database. The Community Foundation of Carroll County is a great example of a web site with both static and dynamic content. Here are two more: Harbor View Contractors and the Town of New Windsor.
• And much more! Ask us how.

A desktop application connected directly to the web site's database can provide an extremely easy and fast tool to allow you to manage the content of your web site. Ask us how!