How to set up a site with a secure form?

[svoltmer]

I am new to e-commerce and don't know what I need to do to set up a form that will accept credit card and shipping info, transmit it securely to the server and e-mail the info from the form to my client to process manually. Could somone walk me through the steps please?

I only know HTML.

[mack]

I would avoid using email because it is not secure. Probably the best thing you could do would be to set up a merchent account and allow a third party to handle the transfers. Your clients bank may be in a position to offer this service. If on the other hand if your client is already a merchant account holder and uses a PDQ for example and require only the info to be forwarded to them, then you could use a third party e-commerse service to take the details and pass then to you. I belive mall's ecommerse offers this as part of their free service, where the data is stored on the server, you then log on to view the data.

Hope this is of some help.

Mack.