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Financial Calculator

  • Hello all,

    I am maintaining a website for a financial investment company and I want to create a calculator for retirement, investments, pensions and savings. I am sure the process is logical but thought I would ask the group if they had any experience or knowledge of how I would go about creating such.

    Our site is edited with Drupal.

    Any help is most appreciated!

    Mike
  • Unfortunately my Drupal knowledge is non-existent, however I would guess the first thing you need to do is decide whether you want it to update 'on-the-fly' with real time calculations, or if you want people to hit a 'Submit' button and then the screen returns the calculation.

    This will probably make it easier for people to give advice
  • I think the site needs to have a mathematical algorithm so potential clients can see rough results based on the figures they enter.

    Thanks
  • Hey bigmike,

    I actually just made an asset allocation calculator myself recently, I used jQuery and a flash pie-chart with HTML5 canvas fallback for the results. You can check it out here: http://johndoesdesign.com/dev/j/calc/. It's not too difficult to create something like that if you have some intermediate JS/jQuery knowledge.

    John