I am a novice web designer working on something for a friend. I need to know how to do 2 things

1) how to do a search within the website

2) how to get a form to submit to an email address.

Please help.

mrbillyjackson

hotmail

Should be Dreamweaver MX. 😉

In the program, you should be able to go to the tabs at the top and got to Insert, then Forms, then choose the form you want.

I have Dreamweaver4, so it may be a little different.

I have Dreamweaver MX, but haven't installed it yet to see if it is any better.

If you need any help, let me know.

tm at batauto.com

The domain in my e-mail is my website.

yeah...tried those...but can't get it to actually send the form contents to email

damn the internet and al gore for inventing it

Billy, edit the source and change the form tag thusly:

form action="mailto:[email protected]" method="post" enctype="text/plain"

mail me if you have problems 🙂

Zed

fudge !at! watchtv !dot! net

0patience, though I rarely use dreamweaver, the mx version is a very nice improvement over version 4. My editor of choice is homesite 4.52, it was the last version before macromedia bought out allaire and turned homesite into some bloated monstrocity.

Billy can you use php or asp etc on your webserver?

Billy, what fudge gave you will work, it will launch their e-mail and send the form.

What server is the site on?

Does it allow cgi access?

If it does, then you can use a form program, but be careful, some form programs like formmail have big security holes that spammers can use.

Make sure that whatever program you use uses sendmail and only allows access from a page on your server/domain.

The form needs to have an action to work. So you have to have something like the [form action=] that fudge posted. Usually there will be a form action=programname.pl or something like that.

Hope this helps.

Fudge,

I use Dreamweaver for all my pages, except a few, because I use tables alot and it makes it real easy, especially when you have a list of data to post.

I also like tables, because it will alter itself to whatever screen size they have.

I use 800x600, but not everyone does, so tabling allows the page to conform to the screen size they have on their screen area dimensions.

Billy, like 0patience said it will send the form via their email client, I was thinking that was what you were wanting, if you want to send it using a mail server, which is the most common way to do it, I can code you something secure.

0patience, I don't think there is a better wysiwyg editor than dw, it does do a nice job of tables, and it doesn't mess with your code too much. The first time I used frontpage, it messed the source up so badly it was also the last time. I think it was fp97 or 98 so it may be much better now, some how I doubt it though 🙂

What do you use for your graphics?

I like fireworks myself, with an occasional dabble into ps. Graphics really aren't my strong point, but I get by.

Up until a while ago, I used a program called irfanview for most of the images, but now use Photoshop7, but am still learning how to use it.

Most of any "real" graphics stuff I need, like our logo, I have someone else do it or I rough draft it and then a friend will clean it up.

Graphics isn't my real strong point.

I tried using frontpage a while back, but ended up giving the program to my son's friends for their website stuff.