 | 1.1 | Designing your database |
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| The structure of your database will vary greatly with the type of website that you're creating. A product directory that creates a separate webpage for each product will need to name the files. If you are using Microsoft Access or FileMaker Pro, this may be in the form of a calculation. A filename may be a product number, or a variable specified uniquely for each product. Then, of course, all necessary data related to your product must be kept in the record. Prices (preformatted to look how they should on the website), descriptions, a link to a picture, or any other data you may come to need in the course of creating your website should all be included in the database. As mentioned with prices above, all data must be preformatted to text the way you would like it to appear on the website. Prices should be truncated to two decimal points, dates should be formatted to taste, as should any times or durations (the popular database programs will make this easy with commands that perform these tasks specifically). TagMaster cannot perform mathematical functions, so it's important that your database handle all of these functions in the correct way. TagMaster also cannot determine inequalities, such as greater than or less than, so if such devices are necessary in your end result, you must create database fields that perform these comparisons to handle these items. |
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