ECard Help

[MrSparkle]

Hello everyone
I'm new to this forum so please be patient. I have designed a couple of websites, one is for business and the other is just for fun really. On the fun one, or sick one, depending on which way you look at it, I wanted to host my own ecard part. The website address is: http://thisworldsucks.co.uk and I have a page titled "Send a sexy ecard" and that link is here: http://www.thisworldsucks.co.uk/cards/index.asp
AND that is far as I have got!
Everything I have done is self taught and self learnt but try as I might, I cant seem to figure how to get this bit working. I have tried Nuts Cards, and other systems. I know I need ASP, my host is 1&1. I know I need to set permissions to the access database - I did this. The thumbnails you see have larger pics which if I added a link would open. I've tried using a form, which I'm pleased with, but it doesn't send, doesn't go anywhere. I dont want to pay $300 for some program that wont get used that much anyway, but any help, advice or better still, here, this is how you do it, would be greatly appreciated. This site is not for commercial gain, just for being there by the way in case anyone thinks I want to make money out of it
Thanks in advance
Doug

[crazyluv]

Well first a little warning would have been nice about the questionable content of "sexy ecards". Although the name does imply a certain level of discretion but I honestly didn't expect to see that.

Well I don't know any scripts for generating ecards but I can guess on a general mecanism but I would need more info to get exactly what you want but I think I'll just make a wild guess.

First thing you would need to do is make sure you can send emails through your server. I would test it and get familiar with it since this is an important aspect of what you want.

Then decide what you what the user to be able to customize and set up the page to allow this. In my opinion the best way to do this would be through CSS for the page design and using a db for messages (don't forget to mark these fields with a unique key).

Then build a form that allows the users to change what you decided they could. This should be easy but don't forget to include a field for the email addresses as well.

Then build your script that will be accessed by the form when the user submits it. First verify as best you can that the info you are given is correct and doesn't contain bad code/entries. Then your script should access the database to store all the info and generate a unique key for identifing that entry. The key will be sent to the users email so they will be able to retrieve their card.

Next you will build the access page that will use that unique key to retrieve the info from the database and construct the ecard.

Take everything in strides it is a big script to work on for some one who doesn't know to much about programming in a certain langauge. Try building it step by step and if you run into any problems don't hesitate to ask.

Hope I made that clear enough.

[MrSparkle]

Hiya

The first thing I have done is changed the initial page to a warning page
Sorry

It was a stupid error for me not to point out the graphic nature of the images
If you dont see any changes on your page let me know

Regarding the other advice I shall now go through that and see what my brain can do
Thanks

Doug