Hi, I have been asked to create an e-card tpye engine where end-useres could select from pre-designed cards, fill these in with a personnalized message and then send it to (an)other end-users.

Do I need a special server or is there any other technical considerations I should have in mind?

Thanks for all your help and support,

Nancy

Hello Nancy
You will need some kind server side technology, such as ASP or PHP that can send the emails. The user would then fill out the form, submit it, in turn that sends an HTML email with a reference to a particular card. That would be the simple way to do it.

If you were wanting to do some other things like track what cards are being sent the most or storing the users information you may want to look at utilizing a database.

You could also create some way to manage your cards with a database, for example you don't want your Xmas cards displayed during summer time. So you could put the card names in the database and only display them during the holiday months. Your display page would only select what cards it should display during a particular month.

Just some thoughts I had about it.

Peace
Mike