How to enable customer picture submission?

Into areas on the web page I designate

[Absolutely]

I'd like to be able to let customers wishing to advertise their business, service etc on my website load up their own pictures in the size and area of the web page I choose, then mail it in to me by hitting a submit button.

I see how to do the Submit and text part on Yahoo's sitebuilder, but there's nothing about what I want to let customers do with pictures. They do allow adding HTML to frames, forms, and the entire web page of course.

Is the type of picture submission into a defined area done by adding some simple HTML somewhere on my page or form.

ANny HTML examples?

[penders]

I don't think it's just HTML you need unfortunately. I recon you will need some server-side scripting such as PHP, ASP, Perl or something to enable the picture to be uploaded, saved and either viewed on the webpage or emailed to you. And possibly a database to store a reference to the picture file uploaded.

[Absolutely]

I'll have the database. A while ago I was receiving resumes and saving them as well as referencing them from my same website's database.

But I don't know much at all about the workings of it. I was wondering if there was something like an Excel program etc that would allow that.

Just to make it clear, here's what I want to do:

Have a submission page on my website where those wanting to participate fill in the blank page in the areas I define with text and pictures, and SEND it to me.

Everything seems to be doable except for the sender loading up pictures to that same page before he sends it.

I can work around it, but it would have looked more professional if they could just complete the page and send if off to me.

Thanks :)

I don't think it's just HTML you need unfortunately. I recon you will need some server-side scripting such as PHP, ASP, Perl or something to enable the picture to be uploaded, saved and either viewed on the webpage or emailed to you. And possibly a database to store a reference to the picture file uploaded.

[penders]

You mention a couple of different issues...

1. You want to be able to display the image to the user (on the webpage) before the user actually submits the form. Well, with standard HTML/JavaScript I really don't think that is possible. (Bit beyond me) but you would need some kind of Java Applet or ActiveX control or something preinstalled on the clients machine in order to do that.

2. Uploading the images to the website...

A while ago I was receiving resumes and saving them as well as referencing them from my same website's database.

The process is very similar. Regardless of what type of file you are uploading, the HTML and server-side scripting is all much the same. The validation, however, will differ.

[Absolutely]

Not so. Basically I'm offering area merchants advertising on my website.

It'd be a bit 'cleaner' if they could just fill in the picture and text blanks on my web page template in order to send me what they want, 'where they want it' on the page.

I then could just look at what they send me, and copy it as they've arranged it to the page on my site that's going to be about their business. Even copying it by hand would be ok. I'm really just trying to enable their initial submission to be kind of put together by them before they send it.

The page they'd send would necessarily have to automatically upload to my website.

If I can't easily do it this way, I'll just offer 1-3 template page choices and have them tell me which template style they like, and to designate which picture they send goes into:

picture area 1 (with caption)

picture area 2 (with caption)

and so on.