I successfully got my command button to open a new instance of IE, navigate to my login page, login, navigate to a specific page once logged in, and enter some data on that page and submit it.
Everything on that site you gave me is simple enough. I wasn't expecting the dom to be so simple to use in VBA, the only thing I had to do was go into the vba tools>reverences, and turn on microsoft internet controls (for those who would like to do this) becasue that website did not explain that.
One other helpful thing that is not on that website is for objects that do not have id's, but have names, you can use this:
Code:
ie.Document.getElementsByName("Email")(0).Value = user
that example finds the first control in the html with name=email, and then puts the contents of variable "user" in.
Hope that helps someone else out!
Thanks again for the great link, it got me on a really good start.