Starting up a Page with Forms in Visual Studio 2008 Options

[spruiellio]

I am working on a website that deals with a form for an electronic check. I pretty much know how to do the code for getting the values, etc, I just do not know how to create the actual forms. I have to create the pages in Visual Studio 2008. Here is what I have to create:






The first image explains what is supposed to be in each field of the form. The second image is what it is supposed to look like after the user inputs information to the form.

And here is what the result is supposed to be after the user clicks the preview button:




So like I said, I know how to do most of the coding, I just have no idea how to manipulate Visual Studio to make the forms look like, or at least similar to, the pictures I posted. I have experience in html and css and some in javascript. So that is not really the issue. I just do not know Visual Studio too well. It seems like there is something easy and/or obvious that I am missing. I played around with VS for several hours earlier and I could not make anything that looked similar the images.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[geoffmerritt]

I am assuming that the information that has been entered into the above form needs to be kept for future reference. If that is the case then you will need to have a server side script like PHP and a database like MYSQL to be able to store and recall any information (an audit trail), a must considering you are dealing with money.

Javascript and HTML are client side scripts and any information entered will be lost once the browser is closed and you wont have any method of recalling a transaction at a later time.

This post has been edited by geoffmerritt: Feb 21 2010, 08:17 AM

[spruiellio]

No, the data does not have to be saved. I am supposed to do it on the client-side, with no php. Pretty much only using html and javascript.

I have created the form for the first page, now I am just stuck and do not know where to go from here.

[geoffmerritt]

Not quite sure what the end result of this form is, you can do all of what you want via client side coding, fill in all the boxes and then display.... but then what.

The information is only available to the person who has filled in the data, if the browser is closed or goes to another page your data is lost.

You have a verified button, where is that information coming from, it can be a server side generated number, but that isn't verifying anything just displaying a number of no relevance that will once again lost at the closing of the browser.

Would suggest that you should spend some time planning your site, will it have a database that this form can refer to or not..

[pandy]

Wasn't the problem how to do the layout in Visual Studio 2008, not how to do the coding?