I’ve been playing around with forms, databases and data driven websites for a little more than five years now. In the beginning, I used access databases and Dreamweaver UltraDev to write the vbscript and sql to interact with databases. Later, I graduated to Microsoft SQL and mySQL and even some PHP to write all sorts of data driven sites ranging from Content Management Systems for news stories, classified ads, blogs and even rental listings.

Now, there a lot of web tools out there to make creating data driven websites a lot easier (without even having to write much code). Here’s a few tools that I’ve found lately.

• Atlas – A free google maps mashup that allows you to upload your own database of map points and information and publish a map to your website.
• Zoho Creator – A free online database that creates the database, create the forms to feed the database information and then create a page to pull the information from the database. You should check out the rest of the Zoho tools (most of which are free).