freeze_frog
08-01-2006, 05:33 PM
Hi, I have been teaching myself web development for the last month and, being a professional photographer and designer, have had some reasonable success with my front end designs (flash and dreamweaver). I am about to offer my ‘bare bones’ web developing skills to a company which I have a good relationship with due to my past design work for them, but I haven’t approached them yet. They need a new website, a very simple, informative site which would just consist of simple navigation with a couple of design quirks, all of which I can do.
My problem is that they will also require a ‘contact us’ page with an email form which harvests info like email address of sender, email body text, telephone, fax etc. I can construct a form so that it would display in a browser, but as far as making the form do as it is supposed to, i.e. allow a user to submit an email and my client to respond to it, I have no idea. Like I said, front end design is great, nice looking websites, but I don’t know anything about back end development. My only guess is that I need to develop a database for the info to go to (how and with what software I don’t know (perhaps access?)), and then this is controlled by some code, but I don’t have a clue what language that would be in or how I would link this together. Or is this all a feature that good hosting will provide?
In a nutshell I am asking how I to go about implementing a functional email form in a site. I hope you can help, any advice will be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time. This is my first thread!
My problem is that they will also require a ‘contact us’ page with an email form which harvests info like email address of sender, email body text, telephone, fax etc. I can construct a form so that it would display in a browser, but as far as making the form do as it is supposed to, i.e. allow a user to submit an email and my client to respond to it, I have no idea. Like I said, front end design is great, nice looking websites, but I don’t know anything about back end development. My only guess is that I need to develop a database for the info to go to (how and with what software I don’t know (perhaps access?)), and then this is controlled by some code, but I don’t have a clue what language that would be in or how I would link this together. Or is this all a feature that good hosting will provide?
In a nutshell I am asking how I to go about implementing a functional email form in a site. I hope you can help, any advice will be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time. This is my first thread!