Restaurant menu order website help

[maxima]

Hi,

I'm a complete newbie to database driven websites. My uncle needs help with a website for his Chinese restaurant. He wants to be able to offer a menu from which you can order from, a confirmation page with everything that the user ordered with method of payment, address, number, etc.
After the user confirms the order, he wants to be able to receive a fax of the order confirmation. He does not have internet access nor a computer so he cannot receive emails.

What language should I use? Are there any tutorials that would help me out? Or is there any advice you can give me?

Thank you very much in advance!

[maxima]

Hi, anybody out htere who can point me in the right direction?

[Brandon55]

I wish I could help you but I'm not too sure how to do it! I think most people might be getting stuck on the part where he wants a fax sent to him with all the orders or whatever! I'm sure lots of people here can help you out with the other part but the fax part wayyyy beyond anything I have ever done! :(

[Silvatungfox]

ok, just a simple menu that was not interactive would not be problematic as you could just use a basic html editor and insert a bulleted list with each item on a new line. If you want it interactive as it sounds like you do, then a more .. involved situation.. it also sounds like you want folks to be able to order online, which means you need a check out page.. shopping cart and that sort of thing. There are a couple of options.. one would be to hire a web designer.. (my nephew is one but I don't want to break any rules about hyping my own stuff.. although I get no kick back from the boy.. heh..)
The other option is to do a search to find online store hosts and weed out the ones that do not provide a built in shopping cart/accept credit cards (which means they have a built in merchant account system)etc. storesonline has all the right stuff but they will try to sell you a minimum of 3 to 5 websites so I can't really recommend them for your purposes.

If you want to put it together yourself, you will still need a merchant account so credit cards can be accepted.. again, I know of one, but I get a kick back so you would need to message me for me to give you that link.. but an online search for "merchant accounts" will bring up the outfits that have that. For the web design, there are free templets available for you to look through and find one that will suit you http://www.free-flash-template.com/templates.php or http://www.freetemplates.nl/
no kickback here.. but make sure you are looking at the free ones as they also have ones they charge for. there are other sites like that .. also there is a free html editor at http://www.*******.com/product/htmleditor/index.htm
ithis is just a starting point for you.
Hope this helps

[kelly23]

There are services out there that can take the information that would normally be sent to an mail address and send it by fax. Here's one:

http://www.interfax.net/en/dev/index.html

Here's another:

http://www.easylink.com/solutions_small_med/5_4_auto_form.cfm

[GogBoy]

I personally would start simple and get something out there ASAP! I think that you could spend a ton of time to get all of the features that you mentioned!