Web Design
ENG 330

• Forms sites of the day from
  : Luz and PJ.

Today’s topic is forms and Dreamweaver CSS. Reading is HTML & CSS chapters 7, 14. Form action: You need to 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, Think about how you would add 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.

Here is an HTML5 form that I did (best tested in Safari or Chrome).

There are a few services that promise free forms server-side processing such as Response-o-matic.

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