Database on web page

[Don Napoli]

Dear Denise,

We at SJCPL serve up several internally created databases. They are all
listed at the top of our home page, just under our largest database, our
on-line catalog of library materials. All of the searchable databases below
our on-line catalog link are File Maker Pro databases. To search them we
use a ready-made acgi called ROFM.acgi created and maintainted by Russell
Owen.

Our version of File Maker Pro is running on a Macintosh WWW server (a
Quarda 95), but FM Pro is also available for DOS operating systems running
on IBM compatible machines. If you want to check out what we have done, our
home page is URL:

http://sjcpl.lib.in.us/

At the bottom of each of the search forms, you will find a credit given to
Russell Owen with a link to his home page where you will find detailed
information about his acgi and how it works. The lastest version does
require that you have File Maker Pro version 3.0.

If you have questions about how large each of our databases are and how we
have configured them to do what they do, I would be happy to answer them.

Good luck!

Don Napoli
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>I am new to creating web pages. I am putting together some local recipes
>with one recipe per page. I would like to have a dictionary of translations
>attached to this in some way so that a person can search for a word from the
>recipe page, have a pop up search window appear, input the search word and
>have it search and display the translation in the window -- still having the
>recipe on the screen.
>
>Where should I look for how-to-do-it information on:
>1) Software for creating the translation dictionary.
>2) Linking the database to the web page to search and display the results.
>
>Thank you
>Denise Davies                                   Phone/Fax (9221) 492-3918
>Head Librarian, Karachi American School
>Karachi, Pakistan                               e-mail
>davies at biruni.erum.com.pk

Donald J. Napoli, Director
St. Joseph County Public Library
304 South Main Street
South Bend, IN 46601
USA
  voice: 219-282-4601
     fax: 219-282-4651
e-mail: donald.napoli at gomail.sjcpl.lib.in.us

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