Hi all....

This is my first posting to this group so if my netiquette comes up short
please feel free to "gently" tell me (I am sure you will)

I want to design a small ordering system for my business and have a
reasonable amount of knowledge creating code within visual basic having
designed my own MSAccess database for ordering, complete with code etc.
Apart from simple Javascript programs *Pinched*, *borrowed* or *stolen* from
any number of FREE sites accross the net my knowledge of the language is
ZERO. That being said I have read a few tutorials on the subject and apart
from some slight differences in terminology and a HUGE (or at least it looks
huge) learning curve with the net (CGI, Perl, permissions etc) it looks very
similar to Visual Basic.

I have looked at literally DOZENS of shopping cart programs all over the
place but NONE (that I have seen so far) will do my ordering thing the way I
would like to do it. Most appear to give a list of products (or one to a
page) ...combine the whole thing together then take you to another   page to
"Check Out" which will then total your order and *usually* allow you to
change that order ...submit it and send both a copy to the customer and the
business via email.

Mine is slightly different in that my range of products CHANGE EVERY MONTH
(Video titles) so my idea is to set the whole thing one ONE PAGE with all
the titles (usually around 80-100) set into say a table with 4 columns. Each
title simply needs a quantity field as in my case I dont need individual
pricing per item (my pricing works on quantity). This is then totalled off
at the bottom of that same page giving total TITLES ordered and TOTAL UNITS
ordered (50 titles comprising 67 units say). There would also be a text box
/es for the customer details with a submit button and a recalculate button.
Pressing the submit button would send me and the customer the order. It is a
fairly simple matter to have Access generate whatever HTML/Javascripting
needed (I am doing this now) every month to just REPLACE last months order
form....it needs no sorting abilities of any kind.

So (Whew! anyone still with me?)

Are my requirements too simplistic?
Are there any problems that anyone can see?
Can anyone start me in the right direction?

I would be thankful for any input

Regards

Tom Keatley

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