Database at website

Please excuse my ignorance as I stumble thru my question.
I would like to have a website, via Mobile Me or otherwise, that is similar to ones you see at newspapers - where there are selection boxes for users to choose what they want to see (one, several or all) of a category, and then the results can be sorted.
I have the data in a database... I'm just not sure what I do from there.
I looked at many calendar driven applications, but they do not seem to give me the flexibility I need for allowing my viewers to choose what they see.
If someone can just give me a push in the direction of what it is that I'm looking for, I'll be off and running...
Thank you -

Hi Marion,
MobileMe does not support server side scripting or databases by users.
I have a work around to show the HTML published database with an iFrame if your database app. has instant web publishing capabilities. But that may not be what you are looking for as there will be a 'log-in to database(server)' screen first.
If you are looking for a database driven content management platform then you may want to check out [Drupal|http://drupal.org>, it works with MySQL databases and PHP.
On their website you can find plenty of hosts for your Drupal website.
With PHP or MySQL over ODBC you can even connect to your database.
Check out [DynDNS|http://www.dyndns.com> if you want to use your own Mac as a web/database server behind a consumer router with variable IP nr.
Kind regards,
Leo

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> I guess ASP may be the easiest to learn because all you
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