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Putting a contact form onto website in dreamweaver

loz25 — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:12:04 GMT

Hello,

I have set up a simple form on our contact page in dreamweaver. I would like an email to be sent to us when the submit button is pressed.

I have read online about form mail. Do i need to install this plugin in the website manager? Also if this generates code is this what i put into the form in dreamweaver?

I am a bit worried if i install the plugin it will mess up the site as it was made in dreamweaver, not the bt site wizard.

The site and ftp is working fine.

Many thanks.

Re: Putting a contact form onto website in dreamweaver

Sogo7 — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:16:30 GMT

If you have a copy of Dreamweaver why are you messing about with the Easy Site Wizard at all?

Go to a tutorial site such as Tizag.com and work through all the tutorials.. A couple of hours a day will have you up to speed with HTML & CSS within a week and able to make a basic website layout. If starting from scratch does not appeal then get one of the ready made layout templates that can be found around the web for free.Then play around with it and learn by trial and error, this often being quicker for some and more fun.

Learning how to create your own Javascript and PHP scripts will take longer however there is a huge amount of ready written stuff out there such as animated menus, slideshows etc and all you have to do is cut & paste the code into the page. Again playing around with somebody elses code will help you understand what it is doing.

Word of caution about ready made form to mail scripts... these are often just the 'bare bones' of what is required for demonstration purposes. Whilst some do feature refinements such as server side validation many do not have a flood control to prevent repeated pressing of the send button crashing your website.

Most web hosts will actually shutdown a site sending more than say for instance 100 emails in ten minutes as being a suspected spammer..

If a member of BT Staff could clarify the exact numbers the OP may find it useful

Re: Putting a contact form onto website in dreamweaver

loz25 — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:52:55 GMT

Hi
Thanks for your reply. I appreciate what you are saying regarding possible spamming of the form.

I think I'll have a go at making the form in dreamweaver but will probably not implement it on the site until I get a bit more technical knowledge behind me.

Cheers.

Re: Putting a contact form onto website in dreamweaver

Sogo7 — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:23:40 GMT

Don't get to carried away with wizard it's an easy trap to fall into. Reverse engineering what the wizard creates into something you can easily manipulate with Dreamweaver can be the stuff of nightmares.

Remember every question you will have about website code in all its flavours or whatever problem you cannot quite figure out. There have been thousands before you facing the same challenges and believe it or not most of the answers are already out there lurking in many forums across the web. If not then there will always be several old timers out there who earn a living as freelance designers who will answer questions and all help is given freely. Here's a good one for any budding Web Designers

Re: Putting a contact form onto website in dreamweaver

tidaltides — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 02:28:47 GMT

I would also like to add this HTML/CSS session to give you more insights on how to make and understand website.

http://learncss.tutsplus.com/