Creating a Form

Hi All,

Hope this is in the right place, apologies if not. I am new to HTML and have been learning via the online tutorials.

I have however one problem, I am trying to create a form for my wifes website (www.cherishedcards.co.uk) for her mailing list.

Currently I have created a word document which can be opened and saved to email us with the relevant details.

I would prefer to use a form, to catch the same data, but cannot work out how. Any suggestions?

Hope you can help and many apologies if this is in the wrong place. Any feedback on layout, site design etc would also be most appreciated.

Thanks,

JPEG

Hi,

what you're ask for is relatively simple:

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp

Has a good tutorial on pretty much anything that is web development.

Personally I think what you're asking for could be achieved easily in ASP by having the information saved in a database.

What exactly do you want to do with the information?

Hi,

Thanks for the reply, basically we need to gather the information onto our system so that we can create a mailing list based on their requriements.

i.e. send a birthday card on 01 Jan to David with the following message, using the following card.

So somehow we need to get the information from the form, to our email so that we can store this data.

Problem when using the form system from w3schools it means that the customer browsing the website has to use its own email service (i.e. it automatically picks up outlook express on my computer even though I do not use outlook express) and it come though onto our email in a text format that is not easy to read.

I was hoping to have a form that would not rely on the customer having to use their email system, and would enable me to receive the data in the same structure as the form on the website.

Any ideas? Thanks for your help in advance. Most appreciated.

Hmmm,

well I highly recommend you read up on ASP. It would be very easy for ASP to take the information you take from the user and sort it accordingly and to save it into a database. This wouldn't need outlook express like you mentioned above.

Seeing how you're new to HTML I'm pretty sure you've never worked with ASP (since they pretty much walk hand in hand) but I do recommend you look through the tutorials at www.w3schools.com and come back here whenever you get stuck. You'll see that it's very simple if you put your mind to it and you could have a very reliable system that would do everything for you.

HTH

Much appreciated, looks like I need to start learning ASP.

Thanks

This is afterall an ASP forum, you won't have any problems on getting help

w3schools says the following:

How to install IIS and run ASP on Windows XP Professional
Note: You cannot run ASP on Windows XP Home Edition.

I have windows home edition, is there a way around this? or another way of doing this on Windows XP home?

Well you could work off your wife's website since most web servers support ASP.

If that doesn't work I'd ask around in the ASP Development board instead of this one.