If you already have a Microsoft Access database listing all your products, or you would like one to be constructed, why not make your website "active" enabling visitors to the site to retrieve the information they require directly from your database? This will not in itself allow customers to buy the goods online, but is useful for retrieving information from a large number of records - eg. a particular make of car or a spare part.

Unlike a fixed HTML page (this one for instance), an active or dynamic page is modified at run time by the server, before being sent to the browser. Therefore, the customer can choose the criteria for the data they wish to view on the Active Server Page (ASP).

Further web pages can be created to allow both the insertion and editing/deletion of data directly to/from the online database, as well as registration pages including password protection as required (eg. the login required for my customers to access their invoices shown to the right).

To see examples of websites that use Active Server Pages, please see my Portfolio, and look under the heading "Sites Integrating with a Microsoft Access Database".