hello there...i am pretty much a newbie in the world of programming so bear with me...

i want to provide a GUI to one of my programs...the program essentially provides some data mining features on a webserver log file...the GUI would recide on the pc itself...after a few days it might need to go live (as in accessible via the web)...

from what i know, these lil' cgi scripts are used to fetch data from databases onto static HTML pages...could my program provide these features?...some1 mentioned inserting my C code into java applets...how do i go abt doing that?

if i just leave the web aspect aside and just focus on providing a neat looking screen with a browse button to specify the location of the log file, a "Get Results" button and a lil' space to display the results, where do i need to start?

would greatly appreciate your advise...cheers!