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Adding
Email Forms to a Website
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There are a few reasons to add email forms to your website,
the best reason being is so you can get information from
your guests to you through email. The second reason is so
you can ask your guest questions, and get their answers
in a secure format.
*Keep in mind you might have to edit some
of your HTML code by hand to get this to work.
Regular Non-Secure Email Forms
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There
are 4 hidden fields which make this form work on InfoWest's
Servers. These 5 HTML tags need to be embedded into your html
for it to be processed correctly.
1.
<form method=POST action=http://www.infowest.com/cgi-bin/post-mail>
This tag should already be present in your form although it
needs to have the red material put into the tag.
2.
<input type=hidden name="Form Title" value="Demo
Form Page">
This tag is the Title of your Form - Change the red part
to your own form name.
3.
<input type=hidden name="email subject" value="Website
Replies">
This tag is the title of the E-mail it sends you- Change
the red part to your own Email form name.
4.
<input type=hidden name="Destination" value="null@infowest.com">
This tag is telling it what email address to send the
information to. Change the red part to the email address you
want to recieve the information at. *
you need to send webmaster@infowest.com
an email asking them to add the email address to postmail.
5.
<input type=hidden name="Form URL" value="http://webhelp.infowest.com">
This tag is telling it where to return to after they have
submitted the form change the red part to go back to your
website, or to a thank you page etc.
6. (optional)
<input type=hidden name="redirect" value="http://webhelp.infowest.com/confirm.html">
This tag is optional, and used in place of #5 above. If you want the user to be directed
to a confirmation page you create upon succesfully submitting your form, use this. Place
your full URL in the value section to direct users automatically to the confirmation/thank you page. |
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Secure Forms - The Pro's and Con's |
Secure forms work exactly the same way as the form above,
however there are a few different procedures that need to
be addressed before you decide you want a secure form.
1. You will not have access to upload and download
your form 24 hours a day - the reason being is because in
order for our Secure Server to be secure we dont allow any
access to it outside of the infowest web team. What this means
to you is that if you wanted to make changes you would go
ahead and test them out on a non secure site and when it was
all done you would email the finished form to webmaster@infowest.com
and have them upload it for you.
2. InfoWest does charge for use of the secure server.
We currently charge a fee of $15.00 a month to host
a secure form on the InfoWest secure server.
3. The link to your form changes from what your regular
websites address is, for example a secure form would have
an address similar to this https://ssl.infowest.com/myform/reservations.html
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InfoWest
does offer most of these basic web services for free, because
of this InfoWest cannot provide support beyond this webpage
without charging for consultation, each request is handled
case by case and a fee of $20.00 an hour will be billed to
your account if you need any further or specific programming
help.
as always there are exceptions and if you feel
you have a question that most people need help with please
send it in here webhelp@infowest.com |
You can also reach InfoWest Customer Support on the telephone at (435) 674-0165 during business hours. |
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