Pushing data and calculations to a website for cheap?

[David Prahl]

Please read all of this, because it might sound easy if you don't read it all. :)

I'm starting a website for my high school's chapter of the National Honor Society. Members volunteer for (at least) 40 hours per year, and get college scholarships, etc.

Previous years we've had a sign-up board for activites, and a big chart that says how many hours people have worked.

Now they want it on this website. And we have no budget (like $100 :cry: ).

IDEALLY, a NHS member goes to this page, types in their 5-digit student ID number, and they can quickly find out what activities they've been to, how many hours they have worked and still need to work.

Is there some way to have a website pull information from an Access or Excel file? I have plenty of server space, FrontPage and Office Pro.

OTHERWISE, I'll just have to do it all manually. 8O

I don't know Javascript very well, so this needs to be pretty simple.

Thanks for your help, everyone! :grouphug:

[upplepop]

If you have Office 2003, MS Access has Data Access Pages that can work great. Check out this MSDN article on Microsoft called Deploying Data Access Pages on the Internet or Your Intranet (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnacc2k2/html/deploydap.asp). Another route to take is to use ASP, here's a tutorial (http://www.stardeveloper.com/odbc_def.asp).

[David Prahl]

I've got 2002, but not 2003...

Thanks a lot for the help! I'm looking into it. I don't think IT will like me re-configuring our IIS servers, though. :D