I need Webpage help

[doofus125]

I'm using Frontpage 2002 to create our young adult web page and I would like to put our communications card on the site in maybe pdf format for people to fill out and then the information be sent to my e-mail address. How do I go about doing this?

Thanks,

Bill

 

[keithylishus]

Uh. First, a rant about FrontPage.

It is completely useless. It is awful with HTML. It adds heaps of extra coding, which slows the page's loading time, and renders awfully in some browsers. It's annoyingly IE-specific. My advice is, if you don't know HTML and need to use an editor, use Dreamweaver. It's much better with the coding.

Now your question: If I understand correctly, you want a form-style object that people can enter information into, which is then sent to your email address.

PDF files aren't the best way to do this. An email form would be much better and much faster to load on people's computers. What type of webhosting do you have? If it's a free site (like geocities, or angelfire), then the best way to set up an email form, would be to use an external server. There are loads of sites that let you send email through them. If you have your own domain name and paid webhosting, you can easily configure a PHP or perl file to use your host's mail server to send you an email.

So uhh... what type of webhosting do you use?

 

[doofus125]

Ok.....all I have is frontpage 2002 to use, there are no funds left to get anything else so that is what I'm stuck with, it's been years since I've done a webpage, let alone html, lol......as for the PDF I have our welcome card that we hand out on sunday nights to the young adult and I have it in PDF format so they can fill it in online just like they do in person and I need to know how to do it in this manner. I know there are other and better options, but this is how our pastor wants it done.....As for webhosting we went through geocities and purchased a domain......I know nothing about PHP, I don't even know what PHP is, lol......I learned html 10 years ago in a high school computer class and I only learned the basic commands to insert a picture and change fonts so please forgive me for my ignorance, but I'm the only person that knows how to use a computer in our whole group (actually I'm more into building and troubleshooting systems so I'm trying to learn)......

 

[doofus125]

Ok, I think I can put a link/shortcut with Javascript in the PDF file in Adobe Acrobat 5 to send an e-mail to me of the information that has been filled out, but how do I do that?

 

[Jill]

The PDF variant is not good at all, because the free version of Adobe Acrobat that most people use is for reading only and will not let entering info.

Thare are far more adequate decisions like an HTML form.

 

[doofus125]

The PDF variant is not good at all, because the free version of Adobe Acrobat that most people use is for reading only and will not let entering info.

Thare are far more adequate decisions like an HTML form.

I have our communications card scanned and wanted to put it just like it is on the site, that's why I wanted to use PDF format.....am I able to put forms in any place on the cards I want? If so or if not, how do I go about doing this?

 

[doofus125]

ok, don't ask me how I did this, but I used the communications card and figured out how to put the forms in the right place and then I used the webhosting e-mail form code to send the information through the webhosting server......*shrugs* I don't know what I'm talking about, lol......but I am learning

 

[Jill]

I hope it is going to work properly (but I am afraid it will be complicated for the customers/visitors)

 

[doofus125]

well, I posted it on the site in a restricted directory for our pastor and our leadership team to check out and have gotten a couple of responses and they say they like it and it's easy to use......We'll see how it goes though.....

 

[doofus125]

Ok, After many hours of work and wracking my head off the wall I got the forms setup and then I had to copy the code out that was needed and put it into a blank html document along with what yahoo's code.......frontpage was trying to create it's own log files on the site and it wasn't working because of the restrictions, but anyways, I ended up copying the card directly from MS publisher and pasteing it into frontpage and it treated it all as text so now the file size isn't so large.......

I don't remember who told me to use forms, but thank you because that suggestion got the wheels turning I just dont' have the energy to read anymore.....time for a nap