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BUILDING A FORM

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by bronco1

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I am a novice webmaster for a non profit group and I have built a form, not only for that website, but also for that of our business. It published fine, but the submit button, when tested, does not function properly. I suspect that it has something to do with Microsoft extensions, as our host does not support them. A friend advised me to change software and use Dreamweaver. (I use FrontPage now) My question is: how easy will it be for me to switch to Dreamweaver and is it enough like FrontPage, for a novice to adapt easily? Is this the right advice about software and will it solve my submit button problem on the form?

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by dbunny84

I have little experience of Dreamweaver, however I do know about Frontpage. This application tries to build a pure HTML form (meaning it relies on the client's browser to process the response). Many browsers do not actually support this, hence the fault on the Submit button.
My best advice is to find a simple PHP or Perl script to e-mail the form. This would then be linked by changing the forms initial tag to:

by sales

I am interested in this discussion myself. I am wondering if you have a web site I can see the form in working order. This has been very frustrating for me. I am new to php, is there a book you recommend or a site with help? Thank you very much for your reply.
Rhonda

by sonat

As a novice Webmaster, you can use dreamweaver without any problem, it is definetly better than front page, And you can do all the forms, some java scripts, apps with couple of clicks, So if i was you i would use Dreamweaver.
However your problem is not because of the software you use, but the webserver. Some servers just won't support that kind of forms. So i'm not sure that you can solve your submit button problem on dreamweaver. But there are some options you can choose between in dreamweaver.

Sonat Dennis Ozturk

by webdvlpr

if you built the form in Frontpage and your web host does not support Frontpage extensions, you have a problem. If you want to stick with your current web host, rebuild the form (Dreamweaver is The Best)and use a cgi formmail script. Matts script archive is a good place to start. http://www.scriptarchive.com/formmail.html

Good Luck!

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