Hey Sarah, There are services out there that will route a subdomain to your dynamic IP address as it changes. I believe that you just have to run a small client on your system that will update the DNS records with the provider. Note however that most ISPs do not allow you to run servers on their network. The site I'm currently working on I'm scripting in asp (active server pages). An MS Access database is providing the backend of it. I've never programmed in anything like asp before. On the web I've strictly done HTML before, although I do have background in both Visual Basic and C++. I recently purchased a domain name for $10/year and purhcased a web hosting package for $10/month. The package in my opinion is well worth it for what you get. If I've peaked your interest you can write me off list and we can chat some more. Cheers! Jake ----- Original Message ----- From: Sarah Van Oosterwijck To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 6:16 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: What would you all think... May I ask how you are able to make an interactive page? I have never made one and don't know everything about it, but I know enough to understand a general answer. What has annoyed me and prevented me from even trying to learn more is that I can't figure out how to accomplish it wihout having my own always on web server and static IP address. ISPs don't seem to allow you to do anything except static pages unless you have a business account and your own domain, which I am not about to pay for. :-) Sarah Van Oosterwijck http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity ----- Original Message ----- From: Jake Brownell To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 2:44 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: What would you all think... Sarah and Gisela, Yep I'd definately let you know how to do it. Right now my idea seems to be to have the user enter Title, Author, select a category and then you would need to enter the BookShare ID of the book. To find the BookShare ID, you can go to the book that you want to know's page. Then copy the last part of the address. The full address would look similar to: http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=19889 In this case you would want to copy 19889. The site would then build the links for you depending on what category you selected when browsing. So yes, somewhat similar to LJs. I'd be interested in a small beta period as well if anyone is interested. Jake ----- Original Message ----- From: Gisela Vazquez To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 12:00 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: What would you all think... hi jake, I have no idea how to make a link on a website. If you had like babystep instructions, I'd love it. Unless it's like an LJ? where you just plop it in? How would we make the catigories? series name, author name. Gisela -------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 266.11.14 - Release Date: 5/20/2005 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 266.11.16 - Release Date: 5/24/2005 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 266.11.16 - Release Date: 5/24/2005