Design Overview

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∟Design Overview

This section describes design overview of a simple ASP application, hyBook, a guest book application.

After I published by tutorial notes on my Web site, I wanted to provide a guestbook tool to allow visitors to share their comments with other visitors and myself. So I started to put together a simple guestbook application in ASP with MS Access database. While doing this, I have collected many interesting notes that might be useful to you.

Let me first provide you some design highlights before going into any details.

Functional requirements:

hyBook should allow visitors to view all existing comments collected in the guestbook.
hyBook should allow visitors to enter new comments anonymously.
hyBook should organize comments by topics.
hyBook should allow Webmasters to manage topics and comments.

Technical highlights:

Two tables will be used in hyBook: "Topic" stores topics, and "Comment" stores comments. Both tables will be stored in a MS Access database file.
A single ASP page will be used for visitors to enter new comment and view existing comments.
Two ASP page will be used for Webmaster to manage topics and comments.
All ASP pages should be as secure as possible.
All ASP pages should be configurable to allow Webmaster to merge into existing Website layout and style.