Managing Information and Forms

[ssammiewh]

One question I was not sure if anyone could help with?

On my site, I will be displaying several photo's (around 100 or so) that are
linked to a form I have created with front page 2003. With this, I could not
insert form fields for then viewers could change the info and I am the one to
do this, I could not find anything to "lock" form feilds?
All the forms have the same questions and content! The answers to this
content I modify to each photo and its characteristics. These photo's can
change weekly! The photo's are displayed as seperate photo's on one page,
with multiple "Photo pages" (I did not like the photo gallery layout for
this!)

So, does anyone know the best way to create and manage this? So far what
know to do is have each 100 photo's linked to 100 differet pages and simply
change and update each photo, and page when I need to. However I am also
concerned about the size of my site! I am new to all of this and have no
clue to what or how the best way would be to do this! Any ideas, help, or
anything would be greatly appreciated! and thank you for your time!

 

[Ronx]

I do not understand why you use a form if you do not want users to
change anything. Plain text with a link to the associated image would
work just as well, and be easier to manage.

To manage your photo's look into a server-side scripting and a database.
All the text (currently placed into form fields) can be stored in the
database, along with a link to the photo.

This would require a total of 2 - 3 pages:
one for the picture display,
one - password protected - for adding/deleting pictures (and the
associated text),
one (optional) - login page (for your own use)
plus one database.

How you set this up, and the database type and scripting language used
depends on your programming skills and which technologies your server
supports (asp, asp.NET, PHP etc.)