Re: Client-side Image Maps and WebCat (what's a database-drivensite)?

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1998


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 20896
interpreted = N
texte = >No pages actually exist? I don't think there is a word to describe the >level of confusion I'm at now. >I'm still not getting what makes a >data-base driven site I guess. : (If you've ever done mail-merge form letters, it makes more sense. For a web site, imagine you have a link that provides more details about a product that someone wants to buy. That web page contains things like the price, weight, photo, description, and other details about that particular product. In a static HTML site, you would need 100,000 such pages to handle 100,000 products. But with WebCatalog, you just design the page once (we call it a template, for obvious reasons), and you 'pour' the detailed information into the page from fields in a database:----- simplified detail template ----- Thank you for requesting more information about [sku]. We sell it for [price] and it weighs [weight]. Here's what the manufacturer says about it: [description]. Here's a picture: --------------------------------------So this single page can handle every product in your database, as long as your database contains real information to substitute in for those [xxx] values. Does this make sense?Technical Support | ==== eCommerce and Beyond ==== Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant, 11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster, San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon 619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Client-side Image Maps and WebCat (what's a database-drivensite)? (PCS Technical Support 1998)
>No pages actually exist? I don't think there is a word to describe the >level of confusion I'm at now. >I'm still not getting what makes a >data-base driven site I guess. : (If you've ever done mail-merge form letters, it makes more sense. For a web site, imagine you have a link that provides more details about a product that someone wants to buy. That web page contains things like the price, weight, photo, description, and other details about that particular product. In a static HTML site, you would need 100,000 such pages to handle 100,000 products. But with WebCatalog, you just design the page once (we call it a template, for obvious reasons), and you 'pour' the detailed information into the page from fields in a database:----- simplified detail template ----- Thank you for requesting more information about [sku]. We sell it for [price] and it weighs [weight]. Here's what the manufacturer says about it: [description]. Here's a picture: --------------------------------------So this single page can handle every product in your database, as long as your database contains real information to substitute in for those [xxx] values. Does this make sense?Technical Support | ==== eCommerce and Beyond ==== Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant, 11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster, San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon 619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/ PCS Technical Support

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