Posted by Steve MacLellan on October 19, 1998 at 18:40:05:
In Reply to: Need Help -Brazil-autoresponders/banners/databank link to Internet posted by Juarez Leal on October 19, 1998 at 04:15:53:

: Dear Sirs,
: We are developing a new business directory in Brazil and we would like
: to ask you some tips how to improve its operation, if possible:
: 1. autoresponder - could you indicate us the best autoresponder software
: to enable us to reply our subscribers accordingly?
One of the best autoresponder programs I have seen is offered by SmartBot.net. Using this service you can set up unlimited automatic follow ups, and it gives you the ability to be able to personalize each one for ANYONE who request it. This service is FREE and available from http://www.smartbot.net/
: 2. banners - we have already implemented some banners, incluing their
: desing, but we would like to know what we should do in order to offer
: these banners as a rotative publicity to our subscribers. Please inform
: us if there is some software able to insert the banners into our home
: page.
There is threee ways to do this:
1)CGI
2)Javascript
3)Server side includes (SSI)
You can get an index of 22 possiblilites using CGI or SSI at http://www.cgi-resources.com/Programs_and_Scripts/Perl/. If you would prefer to use Javascript you should be able to get one at http://www.javascripts.com/.
: 3. databank- once our business directory will register a lot of
: companies, we will need
: to have a databank software to manage all this information. We know how
: to create a databank using Delphi or access software but we do not know
: how to link this databank with our home page with on line access. If you
: could give us some tip how to do that, we would be glad.
Setting up Databases with Delphi involve using ODBC or JDBC drivers. These drivers communicate to the server from your machine. Can be quite complicated if you aren't "code savy". I would suggest using a product called "Cold Fusion" for you that allows folks who aren't code savy to put databases on the web. For this you will have to do a search. I don't have any links to that as the database I've chosen to work with is mSQL; interaction embedded into the HTML code in the form of PHP version 3.0
: Thank you very much in advance for your help,
: Sincerely,
: Juarez Leal
: Fortrade
I hope this helps a bit,
Steve MacLellan