I have a quotations database which I call WIST (Wish I’d Said That). I keep it online here. It’s a pride and a joy and a pain in the ass to maintain, because it all resides offline in an Access database which then takes a major effort to translate into the dumb, static (but oh-so-lovely) pages I have.
Knowing that there are enterprising web folk out there who read this, I am curious as to what it would take (cost) for one of you to actually create an online database with both data entry/edit capability (for me) and online query and display capability (for viewers), along with an export capacity.
I’m looking for the basic functionality here. I can mess up all the purty stuff all by myself, and I can probably maintain what someone else has put together for me without too much trouble. My hosting plan has access to a MySQL database engine; I don’t know if that’s the proper route to go.
I’d love to make updating WIST an ongoing effort, rather than a once-a-year multi-month grind.
Feel free to ask questions or inquire for more specifics. I’m looking for a ballpark here, just to see if it would be a relatively cheap and easy project or a wildly expensive Bataan Death March.