Creating a webpage that parents could access and sign themselves up for conference would probably increase the number of parents who attend parent/teacher conferences. I believe creating this online form would open up the communication lines between teachers and parents, plus allow the administration to have access to how many parents are interested in attending these conferences and which teachers/subjects have a full schedule and which teachers/subjects do not have many parents sign up.

I have had many barriers in this project. The server that maintains our high school website does not support SQL files or .asp files. We will have new servers in the spring, so at least then we can use what I have been working on. So, when I create the forms and databases I have no way of testing them to see if they actual work. I have had to teach myself everything I have learned thus far. I have never tried to incorporate a database into a website. I have played around with this in DreamWeaver and FrontPage. I think I have the form set up correctly and the tables in Access as they should be. If not, I 'm going to be really stressing it next week. Thank goodness I have many years experience with Access and HTML. I have found in both web design software packages I have had to tweek a lot of things.

There are a lot of tutorials and articles on the Internet that I have read and worked through, which has been helpful. A former student of mine, who is currently at Rose-Hulman came by during his Thanksgiving break and gave me a few pointers on how to get everything started. I meet with Dr. Stuve on Saturday, and I am hoping to tie everything I've done thus far together.

I have captured a few screen shots of what I have done in DreamWeaver. This is the form and these are the individual teacher tables I set up in Access. I have completed the relational database wizard in FrontPage, but I'm not a FrontPage fan. I have the form created, but I think the FrontPage method is difficult to follow.