How is it that i still haven't learnt how to make a simple form?
All i'm looking to create is an email sign-up box that will send me an email with the person's address they've entered...
All i'm looking to create is an email sign-up box that will send me an email with the person's address they've entered...
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Re: forms for dummies
Mon, October 22, 2007 - 12:08 PMAnyone know of a good tutorial out there?... -
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Re: forms for dummies
Mon, October 22, 2007 - 12:10 PMThe form part is trivial, but you need a back end to process the form, and that is the difficult part (in comparison). Do you have any experience programming? Does your internet provider support CGI scripts or do they provide some back-end support for forms?
A tutorial will do you no good until you have the back end support arranged, so investigate that part first, and then chances are the back end support will point you to example forms you can use to interact with it, and they will serve as your tutorial on forms.
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Re: forms for dummies
Mon, October 22, 2007 - 12:42 PMI find the Visual Quickstart Guides to be valuable. Peachpit Press. As mentioned, there is some server-side doings. Your web hosting company may have step-by-step basic forms like this already in place, ready for you to copy/paste into your page.
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Re: forms for dummies
Fri, November 2, 2007 - 7:32 AMAriana,
Check out formsite.com - its a free service that can process your form for you, or, if you prefer, they'll even build the form HTML for you to paste into your site.
Matt
