Create your Microsoft Access database and send it as an attachment. Also, send the name of the DSN you intend to use to connect to your database.

You will be using your hobby or items you collect for the data to be stored in the database. Think about how you can turn your subject into a list of some sort. Each item will have an ID and a NAME. Then come up with at least 3 more ways to describe it. Now you can create a table with 5 fields.

Please make sure that the database has been compacted BEFORE attaching it.

You may optionally zip the database as well.

If you want to utilize the categories you came up with - those would actually be look-up tables for fields in the first table. For example, my basic table Addresses is:

FirstName
LastName
StreetAddress
City
State
ZipCode
PhoneNumber
I could change this to be:
AddressID
FirstName
LastName
StreetAddress
ZipCode
PhoneNumber
Then add a second table ZipCodes:
ZipCode
City
State
On a web page, the zip code field would be a list box populated from the ZipCodes table. The value selected would be populated into the ZipCode field of the Address record.