About MetaBid
Overview
Hardware/Software Requirements
Installation/Setup
Support/Add-ins
The MetaBid Demo
Overview
MetaBid is a
server/client application based on Microsoft Active Server Pages
(ASP) technology hooked to a Microsoft Access (*.mdb) database.
To customize, you will need to know
HTML and have some familiarity with Active Server Pages, VBScript
and MS Access databases.
After installation and setup, the application
allows users to put items up for sale,
bid on items others are selling, get a report on all auctions
win which they are involved, and receive automatic notifications if they are
outbid.
Hardware/Software Requirements
To
use MetaBid, your web site will need
to be hosted on a web server that supports Active Server Pages, such as Microsoft
NT Server with at least Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 or
Windows 2000 Server with IIS 5.0.
You will also need a good website
design and HTML editing program (such as FrontPage 2000 or
Visual InterDev 6.0), and Microsoft Access.
For MetaBid to work
properly on your local Windows NT or Windows 95/98 machines, you
will need to have Microsoft Personal Web
Server 4.0 with Windows NT Option Pack 4 installed (you can download the option pack
from Microsoft's web site); and for Windows 2000 Professional or Windows XP
Professional machines, you will need IIS 5.0.
The only requirement for your customers is that
their machine accept cookies since the application uses browser
session cookies for some features.
Additional Installation/Setup Instructions
Additional installation and setup instructions, as
well as the End-User License Agreement, are
included in the README.txt file, in the MetaBid auction
application download package. Use of MetaBid is governed by the terms of this Agreement.
NOTE : The
README.txt file includes resources for finding answers to the
most frequently encountered problems with installation of ASP-based applications.
These involve the correct directory location of the global.asa
file, the proper setting of permissions on a network or hosting server, connecting
to the database and setting up a DSNless connection. Please read these
instructions carefully.
Support/Add-Ins
MetaLinks.com provides limited installation and setup support for MetaBid via e-mail
only. Should you discover any bugs in the application, please notify us so we can post any fixes to our master
download file and provide information to other users.
Assistance with other types of services, such as programming and design, adding additional functionality, or hooking up other
ASP components to MetaBid, are available at reasonable rates at metalinks.com. For
developers and other do-it-yourselfers, the code alone is worth
the purchase price.
The MetaBid Demo
You
are encouraged to try out all the features of our live demo prior to purchasing MetaBid to determine if it meets your needs since we do not offer refunds.
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