Many "Need A Dot Com?" Customers use the Form Code located in the  RESOURCES section of our Members Area to add interactivity to their site and give their visitors an  instantaneous method of communicating with them. The most common question asked about forms is: "How Do they work?" 

Every form contains a Submission/Send button or link. When a visitor pushes this button, two things are sent to the server: The information they've typed into the form and an ACTION, which tells the server how to process that form's data. This ACTION can be to: store the data in a database/file, generate a page, and/or send the data via email. (*NOTE: The RESOURCES code is limited to emailing you the results)

Now let's create a simple Feedback Form:

Using FrontPage to Create a Feedback Form:

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Requirements:
a. FrontPage software installed on your computer
b. FrontPage extensions installed on your site (email: support@needa.com to ensure that your Web Site has FP extensions installed.)
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1. Open your Web Site locally
2. Create a new page
3. Select: INSERT --> FORM --> Form
(A dotted square will appear with a SUBMIT and RESET button)
4. Adding Form Fields:

• Type in a Title for your first Form Field,  (Ex: "Name")
• Making sure you are still within the dotted box, Select again:
  INSERT --> FORM --> One-Line Text Box
  (An input field will be inserted right after what you typed)
• Hit Enter and repeat the process to add other fields such as email, address, etc..

Note: To add a Form Field for Comments,  where a visitor can type in  feedback
Select: INSERT --> FORM --> Scrolling Text Box

 

Picture of what your form could look like

5. Right click on the Input Box next to your Form Field Title and Select: Form Field Properties

• Change the Name of the field to something you will understand like "Name"
  (by default FP will use something like T1, T2, etc..)
• Repeat this process for the other fields you created.

6. Right click inside the dotted box and Select: Form Properties

• Enter your email address in the "E-mail Address Field"
  (This will ensure that the form will be submitted to your email address)
• Press --> Ok

Note: There are other Options in this window, such as a confirmation page and  a  Date/Time Stamp 

7. SAVE your changes LOCALLY  and PUBLISH  the page to the server.

Using HTML to Create a Feedback Form:

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Requirements:
a. Standard hosting account
b. Some HTML knowledge
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As an example we will use a very simple HTML Form ( If you already have a form created you can use it too)
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This is the HTML Form example before making any changes: