web applet help needed
 

I have little or no web coding experiences so am asking for a freebie from those more in the know- you guys

Looking to create a small applette that will allow a user to determine the CFM(cubic feet/minute)needed for our particular product line.
1.User would enter a particular model number(or drop down)
2.This would pull from a DB or spreadsheet(which is built) a factor number(in this case a square ft number based on the face opening of our piece of equipment LxW/144)
3. User would enter a required operating rate for their face velocity.
4. Number of cubic ft/min would be dispalyed in an answer box.

ie
we make a product(model xxx1) that has an opening of 32.14"Wx7.5"H=241/144=1.67
user wants to operate at a required face velocity of say 112
which works out to 187.4833

they would type in(or choose from a drop down) the model
xxx1, enter in a Face Velocity value(112 in example), and the applet would show them the required CFM to achieve that.

Anyone care to throw me a small bone to get me started-would really appreciate it

Off the top of my head, I revert to things like pearl or PHP for something like that. Java would work well as well...

I think, at the end of the day, someone is going to have to write some code. Try getting an o'riley book on pearl, that sounds pretty basic and it may not be too hard.

How about this?

http://www.shareseek.com/soft/s3337.html

Create your form in Excel, convert to HTML.

There are a number of similar things in the market. I have no experience with any of them.

Google excel spreadsheet javascript. Don't need an applet for this.

Here are some folks discussing a from-scratch JavaScript solution: http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread91274.html