Originally Posted by
franko
A form with javascript (not the same thing as java) may well be the best solution. You say you have no coding experience so, frankly, java is not the language to start with. Besides, you don't need a full-blown object oriented programming language to do what you want. Javascript is more than capable of doing what you want, and will be much quicker and easier to learn.
Just to be clear, javascript is a scripting language that runs in the browser. Java is an object oriented compiled programming language that is designed to allow programmers to write once, run anywhere without recompiling for different platforms.