Graphic designers feel unhappy with anything less than cell-level control. On the other hand, they get pixel-level control over element placement. That more than makes up for the table deficiencies, considering how long it would take to do the same things with Microsoft Visual InterDev, the most common ASP tool. Most organizations have legacy documents and Web pages they want to integrate for e-commerce. Many Web authoring tools cannot do this, but Drumbeat developers can import existing Web sites and tack on the e-commerce features.
Novices can make basic apps with the wizards.
E-commerce and enterprise applications, however, require a good background in transaction technology and at least basic scripting skill. Previous Drumbeat editions were inadequate for more than departmental intranet apps. Drumbeat 2000 supports stored procedure calls, making it powerful enough to access Structured Query Language logic on a back-end database server. Developers can build queries with the on-board SQL wizard or use the Query Manager to import existing SQL queries and views. You can also write queries by hand or paste them from the Query View in Microsoft Access.