Thanks Jonathan and Alan, I happen to have FileMaker Pro 7.1a on my iMac right now. I just never have gotten around to using it. I use AppleWorks.
A couple of questions: If I create a pdf with my database (FMP) will it be searchable? The web publishing I won't worry about until I get some of the database done. Then I will try to have our Web master (assuming the collectors club has one) put it up. First I've got to design the database. Duh. While I use AW database a lot, it is always for simple catalog type stuff. My layouts are usually whittled down to what I can show on one line on a page. This new one I want to look more professional so I'll have to think about design. I'm assuming if I get the data in, I can work on the design later. Correct? Anyway thanks. I'll look at FMP tonight. Anne Cartwright Jonathan Fletcher wrote: > Using FileMaker for this depends on whether you think $300 is > inexpensive. Probably not, I would think. > Anne, > > The upside is it exactly fits your need. You can manage your data six > ways to Sunday in the most user-friendly pro level database > development environment in existence. > > It's a piece of cake to create PDFs too. > > Instant web publishing is possible and pretty easy, but you have to > deal with how you are going to host it. If you are going to host it > yourself you have to deal with server and router issues. > > You can hire a hosting company, alternatively, to put it on their > servers. It's not expensive, but not cheap either. > > j. > > > On Aug 26, 2006, at 5:15 PM, Anne Cartwright <cartwrig at aye.net> wrote: > >> Note: The following section was composed using a keyboard >> (windows-1252; format=flowed) >> that uses characters other than those in the US-ASCII character set. >> Some >> characters may not be displayed properly when you view this message. >> >> >> I?m going to be putting together a database of material of interest for >> a collectors club to which I belong. >> >> What I?m hoping to find is something that will be of use to both Mac and >> Windows users. (Yes I know the new Mac will do both; but I don?t do >> Windows.) And I?d like to have something that I can put up on the Web >> that is searchable. Maybe even downloadable as a searchable pdf >> document. Any suggestions. >> >> Did I mention inexpensive (which is why I don?t do Windows). >> > > > -- > Jonathan Fletcher > jfletch at newmediaconstco.com > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be August 22 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be August 22 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
