contact forms

how to add them

[dreamweaver]

HI all, first off i'm a complete novice and new to web design, i am in the proccess of building up a small web site for a friend, i am building up the shell of the page and adding the rollovers in photoshop then saving this as html, i am then opening this up in dreamweaver and doing teh normal stuff there and linking the pages together, but now we've decided we want a form that can be filled in and any details sent to his email, Thats the where i'm at now, i really have no idea how to do this or if it's something that can be explained in a forum like this, maybe theres a link to a tutorial someone knnows about, as i said i am on the first step of the ladder as far as web design goes, so please keep replys simple.

regards Ian

[Go60Guy]

For something really simple, you might try [whiz-mail.cc...]

If you want to get a little more complicated, why don't you check with your host to see if they have a form they can supply?

Oops, I'm forgetting my manners. Welcome to WebmasterWorld. Great nick you have there.

[2_much]

Hi Dreamweaver,

There are various HTML tutorials that'll show you how to create forms. Here's a nice one:

[dtp-aus.com...]

The main thing for you to find out about is whether your server will support it and how to approach that.

[ncsuk]

There is a help menu in dreamweaver that tels oyu how to do it.

If you are using DW MX it is in the top right hand corner. The top menu bar.

[dreamweaver]

Thanks all, never gave the help section of dreamweaver a thought, made a note of the other links so will check them out, as of yet i dont have a host, the only sites i have done have never been uploaded, my experience so far is to do an online frontpage course, then i had some lessons from a local website designer, he showed me about photoshop and rollover effects, and explained the basics of dreamweaver and guided me away from frontpage, and i've read a few books, and thats it, so now i've found this site i guess your all hear a lot more from me as i slowly try to progress, just wish i'de got into this years ago.
thanks for the speedy replys. regards Ian

[Livewirez]

The main dreamweaver tutorial actually shows you how to do this very simply. That is how I learnt how to do forms when I first started.

Livewirez

[stickledene]

Depending on how confident you feel, do a google search for "form mail"

That brings up a shed load of really good articles.

There's going to be a little bit of coding involved, but don't be scared, it's easy as pie! I mean, man, even I can do it!

Read as many tutorials you can and then decide which is the best method for you!

Let us know how you get on,

HTH

Sticky

[g1smd]

If you do use a script, then make sure you change the name of the script to something non-obvious, and put it in a protected directory to try to keep hackers out of it. Otherwise they might use it as an open relay to send millions of spam emails through your server to other internet users.

Although the error messages can be a tad cryptic I recommend you check your HTML coding at [validator.w3.org...] for errors and typos. It really does help to get the codong just right of you know where there are problems. Of course, you already read the recent threads about why validation is important, no?