Access form to HTML page... Possible?

[rcdeck]

Hey everyone,

Here is what I am looking to do, or wondering if it is even possible.

I have a website for a small business that sells jewelry and I am looking to make it easier for my customer to be able to update their own items and such on their website. I would like to know what would be the best method for that?

Currently, each time something sells, price changes, picture changes etc., I am having to log onto my computer, change the information through dreamweaver, and then re-upload the site.

What I would love to be able to do, is build some sort of form, where the user could add/remove/edit entries onto their site. Heres an example.

I have a table split up, in 1 cell i have a picture of the item, the cell below it I have the Name of the Item, Cell below that, the Description, Cell below that is the price, and the bottom cell is the purchasing button.

I would like to have a form tha tthe user could upload a picture, fill out the name, description, price, and place the code from paypal for the purchase button in, and submit it and then when submitting it would update the website.

I know this sounds pretty complex.. maybe? Or maybe I am leaving some stuff out, if anyone is confused please let me know.

The website is www.seascapejewelrydesign.com

You can take a look and will probably get the general idea. Hopefully eventually this database of some sort could recognize when 6 items are on a page and create a new page.

If someone could point me in the right direction of what sort of language or scheme i should be looking at i would so greatly appreciate it. Even any tutorials or examples.

Thanks for everything in advance,

Rcdeck

[jamesbcox1980]

You're gonna be so much better off with a CMS (content management software), and preferably a shopping cart. Might I suggest iScripts (http://www.iscripts.com/productlistingdetail.php?productid=4) ($147 and well worth it)? You can have multiple vendors selling things on your website. It requires LAMP or WAMP (Linux, Apache, MySql, and PHP or Windows, Apache, MySql, PHP). From the sounds of things you might actually have Win, ASP, and Access. (so expensive and so little support!)

I'd be happy to take a deep look into what you have going on and make an offer to get you completely set up. Maybe even if I have the time, I can do an inexpensive redesign for you.

[rcdeck]

James,

Thank you for the quick reply, I actually found something more similar to what I was looking for here > http://www.sitesoutlet.com/ecommerce.asp I Will keep taking a look at iScripts too because it sounds very interesting, though I am not sure how my clients feel about having other users items show up in their online store.

Thanks for the help and information!

Rob

[chaz2290]

I'm more of a designer than a programmer but yeah use a CMS system, maybe also look at oscommerce (google it).
It's free and open source, not perfect but it does the job for me.

Oh, and I know you didn't ask but your navigation could do with being changed it doesn't look brilliant. And maybe put your header image in the middle of the page?
No doubt u can do this but just in case here is the CSS, just put it in a div with an ID of centeredImage

<style type="text/css">
.centeredImage
{
text-align:center;
margin-top:0px;
margin-bottom:0px;
padding:0px;
}
</style>

:D

[jamesbcox1980]

... though I am not sure how my clients feel about having other users items show up in their online store.

See that was precisely why I recommended that particular software (iScripts)--for the ability to give different vendors different partitions in the store. Their stuff is all kept separate. Most shopping carts don't allow for this.

And, please take this based on my experience, those shopping carts you mentioned at siteoutlets.com are very cheaply made and don't have the ability to keep your vendors separate. Even the big boys like Volusion don't have that solution. The iScript stuff has software specially tailored to niche stores such as yours.

Not to mention, it's the same price as most of those on that site. You will see, if you download them and try them out on a test store, they won't be what you're looking for. If you'd like, we can discuss all the details of all of this by email. This is what I do for a living.