I need to create a database driven cd

[marklbishop]

I hope this is the correct forum to post in. Since this is a question if what I need, I wasn't sure which to start in. My appologies if this is not the correct place.

What I need is to create a database driven cd.

I currently have a auto loading CD that is essentially a mini website that I am distributing via CD. The current version has about the equivalent of 200 static html pages that people can click through. A large portion of the content is a product listing broken into multiple categories and sub-categories.

I need to update this to version 2.0. In this update, I want to change some of the content, but mostly I want to put this product listing into a database so it is a) easier to update, and b) sortable, searchable, flexible based on the viewer's desire. I have no idea how to do this.

My questions are theses... 1) What are the technologies that I should be looking to? Flash? Access? Director? 2) I have an in-house IT person who is capable but this is not his forte. Should I ask him to try to figure it out? Is there someone on this forum that has experience to do this? I have a budget for this, but this project is for my non-profit organization so this is not a large budget by any means.

Any feedback would be most appreciated.

Thanks!

[Jordan]

Access would be your best bet IMO. You could include that with the CD and being such a small database would work fine.

[marklbishop]

So, does that mean the CD could have asp pages and the pages read the access database from the cd? Or would the person receiving the CD need Access? If the second is the case, this wouldn't work.

[Uniqe]

I believe that the person receiving the CD would not need access. I'm not sure how ASP compiles but I believe it uses the .NET library, correct? Does ASP even compile?