Static or dynamic site?

[Voxart]

Hello,
I'm planning a site that only sells about 18 products.
These products are songs for special occasions.
Customers can input personal details on a form.(Their name etc. will appear in the song.)
So they're only going to buy ONE "product"
Therefore, with such a simple setup, would a static site be the answer?
Or does it really HAVE to be dynamic, server side?
Also, is it possible to incorporate a shopping cart into a static site?
I'm puzzled and need advice.

I should add that the site being planned requires very little maintenance.
The same products will remain on display indefinitely.
Form validation would use Javascript.
Could I start with static and change to dynamic later?
I need to know the way to go...

All advice welcome,

~V~

[muneepenee]

1. statik is fine
2. get shopping kart from 1 av many plaeses that sell em.
gotta make shuer yer host support wotever tung the kart software is rited in

[Smokie]

Your products can be on static pages, but the shopping cart functionality needs to be server side, however it doesnt necessarily need to be done by you, if you use paypal or worldpay etc etc your product page can simply pass the details of the product and price over to your chosen merchant and they do the rest (take payment). Hope that helps.

[sypher]

I am in the process of making a site with exactly the same thing, personalised songs

You can do it the easy method of using paypal's built in functions, or promote to a wider audience and either install or make a shopping cart script to handle details. (You will need an SSL or merchant)