HTML - A Little Direction

I'm currently designing a website for my local business. Right now I'm designing everything is Adobe Photoshop. When I'm done, I'll import it into Adobe Fireworks, then cut it up and I export it into .html.

It's going to be a pretty basic and small website but I need help with one thing. I plan to have coupons and reference numbers (for different forms of advertising). I want to have an input box for a customer to enter into the box then click a button. I want that button to redirect them to a different page depending on the input.

In other words, if the code is 000628 then I want it to redirect them to www.myurl.com/000628.html. How would I go about doing this? Is this something I can even do using simply html?

Thanks for the help!!

I am learning web design and I need to know what I need to learn. Let me see if I can explain the concept that I would like to learn:

I want to have a site where a customer fills out a form and then the information on that form gets placed on its own page.

Does that make sense? I remember once seeing a CGI script for a website that would self generate new pages, but I can't remember what this concept is called.

Thanks so much!
Marie

Hello,

I'm a bit stuck with how to code this so if anyone can rattle this off in seconds I'd really appreciate them doing so:

Rather than have visitors to my site click on a flag to visit a page based on their country of residence I want them to click one URL, then the code on this page work out if they are from UK, USA, or any other country and re-direct them to either page 1, page 2 or page 3. Is there a way for this to be done?

Thanks.

Hi All. I am building my first website from scratch. The layout is basically broken down into 5 divs:

header, top menu, left menu, content and footer.

You can see a rough draft which I made using Joomla he
http://www.petiot.dnsalias.com/LRL/
(hope the page is reachable)

I came to ask myself very very basic and general question for which I need directions more than detailed answers really: What is the normal approach for website content display?

1 - having as many web pages as their are possible menu configurations (e.g. mainlink1/sublinkA
mainlink1/sublinkB
mainlink2/sublinkA
mainlink2/sublinkB
etc etc) and load them according to which link the user click?

2 dynamically changing the content of part of the page (i.e. left menu and content)
according to the link the user click in the top and left menu respectively.

I feel the second approach is the right one, but I think I am missing something.

I know how to change the text content of a HTML tag using javascript. I also read about frames that allow to load a page within another page, but I understand that frames are not so popular.

I guess my question is: Is it possible to dynamically change the content of a div by loading the html code contained in a separate html/css files? (so for instance I could only update the left menu and content div when the user click on a top men link)

if not what is the right way of achieving the same result? Any links or even general keywords I could google would be welcome!

Many thanks,

Hello.
I just joined the forums because I want to start making websites again. I used to do it about 3 years ago ( nothing hardcore), but i knew enough to make basic websites.

Now, I want to learn the more indepth stuff. Such as Mysql, perl,css,java, javascript etc... i dont even know what someof those are.

So heres my question.
WHERE SHOULD I START?
I want to start from scratch.
I dont even rememeber some of the html stuff, so where do you guys think i should start? what are the fundamentals i need to know in order to move on to the more difficult stuff.

One last thing, can someone tell me the difference between html/xhtml/xml.. im kinda lost...