Stranger In A Strange Land...
hi.
Quote:
> multi-step, multi-page things are presented; like the same sort of things
> I'm doing now on the desktop, with wizards & tab controls. Is this what
> "COM" is all about ???
Welcome to the Web World.
Here everything is slower, less smart, harder to use and more "clicky". A
good part though is that you are allowed to invent the wheel again.
<end of religeous message>
Now seriously.
You have a big task in front of you. Web is made for thin clients. It's
clients have slowly become fatter with javascript, activex controls and java
applets.
A good thing is that it forces you to think in more than one layer; which is
a drawback of Access.
I avoid client side scripting (CSS) since it makes the application/site
browser dependant. But then I don't get a "good" interface either. In my
opinion CSS doesn't have a chance against ordinary native client server
applications. At least I haven't seen any.
So the only examples you'll see are "little doo-dah's". Check the real
world, there are mainly doo-dah's on WWW today. The WWW versions of Visual
Intercept, Outlook and Kana has a bit better interfaces but they are not
even close to their native brothers.
My advise:
Remake the UI. Make it step-by-step and cut out all bells and whistles.
Remove a lot of functionality and set even more on "Hold".
Divide your users and find the ones that Really need the Web interface and
build it for them. Let the rest have the superior tool you can create in
native C/S.
Ok, now to books and direction:
If you need drag and drop, cut and paste and several windows you have to get
books on JavaScript.
Then you have to decide between PERL, ASP, WebClasses (I prefer that), JAVA,
CGI.
Last:
Good Luck!
--
Ola Fjelddahl
Developer and consultant at Cell Network, Sweden and Norway
ola.fjelddahl(at)cellnetwork.com (die spammers)
http://www.cellnetwork.com
http://hem2.passagen.se/olafj/OF
Quote:
> Hello - I've been developing database app's in Access for several years,
and
> now I've got a client that wants me to start doing everything as browser
> app's. I'm gearing up on VB6 (thanks to some good advice from this
> newsgroup), but I'm still stumped now as to how to do user interfaces
where
> heavy data entry and workgroup collaboration is involved.
> I've looked around for examples, but the only things I'm seeing are simple
> little doo-dah's where everything fits on one page. I need to see how
> multi-step, multi-page things are presented; like the same sort of things
> I'm doing now on the desktop, with wizards & tab controls. Is this what
> "COM" is all about ???
> Can anybody point me at some good examples and/or reference books?
> Thanks In Advance
> Mark
