Website Help

[gooberguy]

OK, what im trying to do is make a websitre where people can come on it and enter different data and it automatically updates the page with the info on it.

For Example: People come on and enter the MAin Title of somthing then in another box explain it. When they click send it then updates a page with all the info... like this

+Man Title This will stay the same
-explain 1 < people will add these
-explain 2

+Main Title 2
-explain 1
-explain 2

Also im looking to do it on a free hoster.

If anyone has any suggestions or code that i can copy and paste, id appreciate it. Thanks a whole Lot in advance!

[thecoalman]

Sounds like a forum to me...... Anyhow for something like that you will need a host that will allow you to run scripts which as far as I know don't exist for free.

At best you can look into some of the free forum sites,

[banger298]

host it your self us server 2003 i do and two pc's runing it

[gooberguy]

i dont know much about the hosting stuff... and wouldnt the wesite be thru ftp?

anyways about the website i wasnt thinking of a forum, morre like the explain part links to a page with a lenghty explanation.

[banger298]

not has fare as i now i us www.dyndns.org for domain name(keeps a chque on my ip address so that you always find the site) and server2003 by brother us xp pro (he is a IT teck for nhs) and we us hower braodband conection ,works fine(http://)

[thecoalman]

i dont know much about the hosting stuff... and wouldnt the wesite be thru ftp?

To create pages on a server where someone can access it from the web and type stuff in and hit submit you need to be able to run an executable script such as .cgi to create the page..... I don't know of any free hosting that will allow you to do that, unless it's there script such as the free web forums.

You can ftp each page to the server but each person would have to edit the code in the page.

[gooberguy]

I think what banger298 said can help me out, on that website did u use Custom DNS or what?

[banger298]

me and my brother us Dynamic DNS.
i am still learning server 2003

[gooberguy]

Whats the differance in hosting thru win xp pro and server 2003?

[banger298]

you have more control with server than xp ,server is harder to us .
put once you got the hang of server you can us ssl ,sql ect(which i beleave are in server put little brother not shown me them yet) to make the site secure us passwords ,control bandwith basicly run your site like a big company .like i say i nothing about server realy compaired to what it can do ,i just us server no over programs to run a site and the over pc's on my network in my domain

[gooberguy]

Ok, now that the server stuffs outa the way, anyone know how to do the layout i poseted above?