What is the best way to create an articles database?

[sbeco]

I have about 200 Internet marketing articles that I would like to make available to my website visitors. I don't want to create a page for each article and upload those 200 pages to my server. I'm much too lazy to do that, and I'll bet there is a better solution out there somewhere.

So, I need to create a database that will upload any article that a visitor would like to read. I'd also like to include a search form that a visitor could use to search the database, receive a list of articles to choose from, and then choose an article to read on my website.

What is the best way to create this type of articles database for my website visitors?

Does anyone know of a software program I can purchase that has all of the search and database features I need?

Do I need to buy FTP software to upload my articles, plus buy a software program?

Does anyone have any ideas about the best way to remedy this problem?

Thanks

P.S. My programming skills are limited.

[godzilla]

Give unkown level of your programming skills, the best solution would be to find someone who can help to customize the applications for you.

As for the general concept: You need 2 tables in your DB , one will store the actual article, another the info about it(metadata). Then the search will be easy and uploading also as a unique webpage can be used to upload all articles just based on their ID.

Note that you may search on the net for the scripts that would authomate uploading to DB and for the cripts that can do searching.

[danielle v2.1b]

You might want to try something like ArticleLive (http://www.interspire.com/articlelive) although there are many similar systems available.