First, a confession... I test databases for a living! Having said that, I'm remarkably ignorant when it comes to the process of actually manually shoving great wedges of data into them... I'm trying to design a database to catalogue the Corestore collection. It's my intention ultimately to construct a database-driven website to make much more of the collection publically-accessible - the present website is woefully out of date and generally inadequate. I can design the backend database no problem - I'll probably use DB2, create tables with the fields you would expect - catalogue number, manufacturer, serial number, date, free-text description, etc etc. Also binary fields to hold images, if it's an artifact worth photgraphing, and data, if it's a data artifact - e.g. if it's a disk pack or paper tape, an image file of the contents. What I'm looking for is some suggestion as to a 'ready to use' front-end data entry package that would be suitable. Critical to this is the ability to drag and drop, for instance, .jpg images into the appropriate data fields - there are going to be so many of these that the idea of typing path or file names into something doesn't bear thinking about. I've no idea where to start with this - my career testing databases has lef tme clueless on how to go about data entry! Suggest anyone willing to assist replies via email, unless they feel that discussion of this topic on the list would be helpful to others. TIA Mike http://www.corestore.org _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail