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Supposed you are planning to publish an audio-tape catalog through your Web site, and you want to list tapes by their themes as well as present an alphabetical index of their titles. If you decide to store your tape catalog as flat HTML-formatted text files, then whenever a new tape is added to your catalog, you have to create a link for that tape on both the theme and the index pages. This link-maintenance task becomes an even more tedious if you further decide to arrange the tapes by their
singers, by their release dates, and even by their ranking on Cash Box. However, by organizing the tape catalog in a database and then dynamically linking that database with your Web site, you can reduce the challenge to a simple matter of adding the new tape and its related attributes into the database only once. Granted, this sounds like a great option, but it requires you to venture into the database territory and learn the Web-linked database linking techniques.
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