Web Development
DART 230

• Forms site of the day from:
  Gabby and Justin

Today’s topics are forms and Dreamweaver. Reading is HTML, XHTML & CSS chapter 17.
Form action: You can set action="http://www.lasalle.edu/cgi-bin/mailapp?beatty" in your form and it will send me an e-mail. You may need to add an encryption type: enctype=""x-www-form-urlencoded". We can test it later as you develop your site. SO your form would read: <form name="whatever" method="post" action="http://www.lasalle.edu/cgi-bin/mailapp?beatty" enctype="x-www-form-urlencoded">

Here is a good description of forms as employed at UNC Chapel Hill: Forms described. And here is the results of that code and more tags that I put on a page,
and another from a British university: U. of Brighton. Here is a link (but from a FrontPage site!) to adding CSS to forms to style input fields, buttons, etc. And here is one about why the ACTION="mailto:email@abc.com" doesn’t always work, and an article on user-friendly forms.

There are a few services that promise free forms server-side processing such as Response-o-matic and HTML Gear for guestbooks.

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