Using one or more databases, WebCatalog can create a dynamic Web site that is capable of doing just about anything you can imagine. You should be familiar with basic database design concepts before continuing. WebCatalog uses tab-delimited text files as its native database format. This gives you maximum compatibility with other database applications and maximum compatibility across multiple platforms. The first record in a WebCatalog database is a tab delimited list of field names.
All subsequent records contain that actual data.
The only two characters that are not legal in a tab-delimited text file are the tab character and return character. WebCatalog is not case sensitive when referring to field names. WebCatalog does not expect, or require, any particular number of fields or any particular field names. WebCatalog stores all data as text. When searching for data, however, you can treat fields in a variety of formats.