I need help with building a computer business website

HELP!!!
I need help with building a computer website to where I can have people customize and PC and it will tell their price (either in real-time or by clicking a button to update). Now I know all it takes is some java script in the head or wherever on the page, but since I am a noob at javascript, I have no clue.

If anybody could help me as in actually building a site, or just giving my tutorial url's or emails; that would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Ryan

try the following links:

Webmonkey (http://www.webmonkey.com)

HtmlGoodies (http://www.htmlgoodies.com)

w3schools (http://www.w3schools.com)

They should give you the basics. They won't give you ready made scripts, but should guide you on some stuff.

Duniyadnd

I know HTML, it is just that i want to define a variable and then total the value of all variables but I dont know how to do it, here is an example:

function calculateTotal() {
var Motherboard=document.Configuration(name of the form).Motherboard(name of the box).value
var total= (all vars)

}

It has an error...and I dont know the correct operators to use when trying to get the value.

Remember i am trying to get specific values of choices in drop down boxes.

can we see the page you're working on? that would make it easier

Sure...here is my web site

It is actually quite simple. Make an array for each select box.

var CPUvalue = new Array(3)
CPUvalue[0] = 75
CPUvalue[1] = 100
CPUvalue[2] = 125

varMOBvalue = new Array(3)
MOBvalue[0] = 125
MOBvalue[1] = 150
MOBvalue[0] = 135

0 corresponds to the first entry in the select box, 1 to the second, etc.
And then you would need a function not unsimilar to this:

function computeTotal(form)
CPU = CPUvalue[form.CPU.selectedIndex]
MOB = MOBvalue[form.Mainboard.selectedIndex]

total = (CPU + MOB)

form.total.value = total


<form name="form">
<select size="1" name="CPU" onChange="computeTotal(this.form)>
<option>Option 1</option>
<option>Option 2</option>
<option>Option 3</option>
</select>

<select size="1" name="Mainboard" onChange="computeTotal(this.form)>
<option>Option 1</option>
<option>Option 2</option>
<option>Option 3</option>
</select>

<input type="text" name="total" size="10">

Of course if you want to get fancy, you could always just put total in a document.write

If you have any other questions regarding this, or would like to see a full scale example, feel free to email me @ mojuba@comcast.net
Oh I almost forgot, if you want the script to total up on page load just add onload="computeTotal(this.form)" to the BODY tag.