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What are FormMail Scripts?By now, you probably have some experience designing web pages. You know that you can use any HTML editor, or a variety of other tools to create web pages. Publishing is simply a matter of uploading the page to the right place on your webserver. Just upload and it works! Unfortunately, once you start working with HTML forms, things are not so simple. You can, of course, design web forms using any HTML editor. But you can't make it do anything with HTML. If you design a great looking form and then upload it to your website, you'll find that when you fill out the form and click the submit button...nothing at all happens! In order to get a form
working, it is not enough to just design the form itself in HTML. You also
have to create a The FormMail script is NOT part of the HTML, it is a separate program which must be installed on your webserver. The location of the Form Mail script is specified in the HTML form tag. It looks something like this: <form name="forms" action=http://www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/formmail.pl> The red text above shows the location of the form mail script. This program must be installed and set up on your server. So should I use a Form Mail Script?To get a web form working on your website, you basically have three choices: 1. You can find and use an existing FormMail script . There are a variety of these available. You will need to edit/setup the script, upload it to your webserver and then set the proper permissions so it will execute as a program. Aside from the fact that they can be hard to set up, there are a number of important drawbacks to these scripts:
2. You can hire someone to design and install a custom form script for you. This solution has the advantage that you can create a web form processor script to do exactly what you want. For example, you would be able to go beyond just emailing the submission results to the webmaster and perhaps save the data in a file on the webserver for later retrieval, send an automatic confirmation or "thank you" reply to the person who filled out the form, etc. This is the solution employed by most large businesses and organizations that want to insure their website operates in a highly professional and efficient way. The drawback to this solution for smaller businesses and organizations is, of course, the high cost and time associated with finding and hiring a qualified programmer. 3. You can use a remote form processing service, like FormBreeze . A remote service has the advantage that you do not have to worry about writing, installing or setting up a form processor program, because the program runs on a remote server. Someone else takes care of the technical details for you. A second important advantage of a high quality service like FormBreeze is that you can get many of the features and professional appearance that would otherwise only be available from hiring a programmer to create a custom form hander for you. FormBreeze offers a unique combination of power and ease of use because it offers a control panel. To control the way your forms work, you simply log into your control panel using your user name and password, you can then specify exactly how your want your forms to work, see statistics, download all the data users have entered in your forms and much more. Here are some of the features available in the FormBreeze service:
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