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jtatooine
09-09-2003, 06:13 PM
Hi, here is the web page I am working on. For some reason the form will not send the information to the email address. Any help is greatly appreciated.

http://www.gradwellhouse.com/buttonshy/designingbuttons.htm
jtatooine
09-09-2003, 06:14 PM
I forgot to mention. When it goes to send it just kind of freezes up my IE.
96turnerri
09-09-2003, 07:46 PM
i just tested your page and it works fine for me let me know if you get it i filled in first three boxes with TEST, i am using IE6.0 win98
96turnerri
09-09-2003, 07:49 PM
whilst looking at the coding it looks like youve frontpage, just rightclick on form properties, and enter an email address to send it too, this will get rid of do you wish to send it by email blah bla bla, it will just transmit the form and deliver it to the email you specify, easy peasy

Make sure server has frontpage extensions
jtatooine
09-09-2003, 07:49 PM
hmmm. thats odd. I did get the email. I haven't opened the .mim file yet but it was sent. I wonder why my computer kept freezing. I'm on XP.

Also does it have to be sent as .mim? I think I read somewhere you have to change something to send it as text.
96turnerri
09-09-2003, 07:50 PM
yes you can do as i said in the above post and it will send it straight as a normal email let me know the outcome

Rich
96turnerri
09-09-2003, 08:35 PM
the new link you gave me is still working the same through my email client, you will have to delete the scripts that you used to confirm submission for it to work properly, if you could do this then ill have another look, but hopefully there will be no need
96turnerri
09-09-2003, 08:38 PM
here ive edited your page for u try this make sure u change the email address to ur own

<html>

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
<title>Button Shy works with bands</title>
<base target="_self">
</head>

<body bgcolor="#586878" text="#C0C0C0" link="#C0C0C0"
vlink="#C0C0C0" alink="#C0C0C0">

<p align="left"><font
size="1" face="tahoma">Attention all non-graphic designers: Button Shy
can design a button from scratch for you!</font><p align="left"><font size="1" face="tahoma">Actually
we aren't graphic designers either, but in the past few years we've seen some
really<br>great work. Since then we've learned a little bit about how to make halfway decent images.<br>So
we decided to offer this to our customers.<p>For
only $5 via Paypal, we can whip together a design for you. Actually we will whip
together a few different <br>designs
for you to choose from.<p>Here
is your part:</font>
<form method="POST" action="--WEBBOT-SELF--">
<!--webbot bot="SaveResults" S-Email-Address="CHANGETHISTOUREMAIL!!!!" S-Email-Format="TEXT/PRE" --><p align="left"><font size="1" face="Tahoma">1. TEXT. Enter the name of the
Band/Label/Zine etc. If you want any other text put it here too.<br><input type="text" name="T1" size="20"></font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="1" face="Tahoma">2. FONT.If you have a specific font in mind tell
us. If not,something like "Block Letters", or "Script" will do.<br><input type="text" name="T2" size="20"></font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="1" face="Tahoma">3. COLOR. Choose the colors you
want. Specify Font Color and Background Color if possible.<br><input type="text" name="T3" size="20"></font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="1" face="tahoma">4. IMAGE/BACKGROUND If you want
more than just text, tell us right here.<br>If you have an image, send it over.
Email it to: <a href="mailto:orders@buttonshy.com">orders@buttonshy.com</a><br>If you want a certain type of
image such as a Goldfish or a Skyline Background, we can find one for you.<br><input type="text" name="T4" size="20"></font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="1" face="Tahoma">Anything else, put it all in
here.<br><input type="text" name="T5" size="20"></font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="1" face="Tahoma"><input type="submit" value="Submit" name="B1"><input type="reset" value="Reset" name="B2"></font></p>
</form>

</body>

</html>
96turnerri
09-09-2003, 08:39 PM
damn smilies should be :O
jtatooine
09-09-2003, 08:47 PM
thanks so much for the help. I am on a mac now, with no access to my files so I will have to wait until tomorrow morning to try it out. Thanks for taking the time to help me out. :O
96turnerri
09-09-2003, 08:56 PM
not a problem anytime, let me know the outcome plz

Rich
jtatooine
09-11-2003, 07:51 PM
Ok, check this out. Here is my test form.

http://www.gradwellhouse.com/buttonshy/testformpage.htm

When I try to fill it in it takes me to this error page:

http://www.gradwellhouse.com/buttonshy/--WEBBOT-SELF--
96turnerri
09-11-2003, 08:12 PM
make a new page in frontpage then insert a form with an online box in it right click in form go to properties go send to email type in your email go options still in form properties then to saved fields select all, ok test this page now it should work, after testing inset the other components you wish into form, also do you have frontpage extensions installed on the server?
jtatooine
09-11-2003, 08:16 PM
what are frontpage extensions? I'm not sure if I have them. I've tried making new ones over and over but I still get the same thing.

Here is something else, I just saw. Say this was my form instead. How would I get it sent to me via email?

<form action="my-credit-card-processing-script" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="Amount" value="14.95">
Card Number: <input type="text" name="Card_Num"><br>
Card Expiration Date (mmyy): <input type="text" name="Exp_Date"><br>
<input type="submit" value="SUBMIT PAYMENT">
</form>
96turnerri
09-12-2003, 07:04 AM
i thought thats what we were trying to do, send the form via email?
jtatooine
09-12-2003, 07:08 AM
yeah, I guess I worded it wrong. This is just a new form I copied instead of the one that I wrote myself on Frontpage. It seems like frontpage is part of my problem.
96turnerri
09-12-2003, 07:26 AM
posibbly i dont see why the script i gave didnt work
jtatooine
09-12-2003, 07:30 AM
For me when I try it, it's taking me to a WebBot self page and not sending the information.

http://www.gradwellhouse.com/buttonshy/testformpage.htm

is there a way for me to copy and paste your code right into frontpage? Without losing the <'s and >'s?
96turnerri
09-12-2003, 07:39 AM
yes i had that problem of loosing < > coopy from thread to notepad then into frontpage it works dont know why nut it does try it?
pyro
09-12-2003, 08:00 AM
It's because FrontPage sucks. You'll have to paste the code into notepad (or someother plain-text editor) and the copy it out of there, and paste it into the code view of FrontPage. Or, you could just ditch FrontPage, which would be my personal choice...
96turnerri
09-12-2003, 08:12 AM
frontpage has advantages such as its easy to debug your site? not that my sites have errors :p
pyro
09-12-2003, 08:19 AM
Any advantage the FrontPage supposedly has, would certainly be outweighted by it's many disadvantages...
96turnerri
09-12-2003, 08:24 AM
ok then what disadvantages does it have?
pyro
09-12-2003, 08:30 AM
The biggest one is that it generates propritary code. While no WYSIWYG is as good as hard coding, FrontPage has got to generate the worste code out of all of them. Also, due to the propreitary code, more than likely, your site will only look the way you intended on IE browsers.
96turnerri
09-12-2003, 10:24 AM
thats because frontpage is made by ms and so is ie :p
pyro
09-12-2003, 10:27 AM
Either way, it makes it a real piece of junk...
96turnerri
09-12-2003, 10:33 AM
ok then.... well uv got ur opinion which ur entitled to and ive had mine well its good for one thing n00bs!
jtatooine
09-12-2003, 10:34 AM
hey was that directed at me!
DaveSW
09-12-2003, 10:45 AM
96turnerri: Believe me, learning html is far better for newb's!

jtatooine: Do whatever you wanna do LOL. Personally I'd get away from frontage... But you really want a mailer script... Get away from that webbot stuff...

What server side languages do you have? e.g. php, asp etc. If php then pyro has a great mailer script...
pyro
09-12-2003, 10:53 AM
Originally posted by 96turnerri
well its good for one thing n00bs! I disagree. By using FrontPage, all they will learn is bad coding style. Their time would be much better spent learning HTML 4.01 or XTHML, and CSS. With those under thier belt, they won't have to rely on WYSI(N)WYG editors to write their code for them, and they will be well on their way to being able to design accessable web pages.
jtatooine
09-12-2003, 11:01 AM
I actually first wrote html myself. Then later I got into frontpage. In frontpage I often edit in the HTML section, but I do like to be able to see things right away and some of the other simple things like creating a table and seeing it right away so I could change it up.

I don't know anything about server side languages. I bought my own .com and a friend lets me use some of his web space. Thats all I know. I think if I wanted some server side languages I'll have to purchase my own space.
DaveSW
09-12-2003, 01:01 PM
If you ask your friend what server side languages he/she supports then you could maybe use pyro's mailer - http://www.webdevfaqs.com/php.php#mailer


it's really simple to set up - just another page on your server.
96turnerri
09-12-2003, 06:09 PM
ok guys lets finsih this i dont personally use frontpage much only for debugging ocassionally, looking back at what i said learning html is actually much better for noobs, and no that wasnt aimed at you jtatooineok?
PeOfEo
09-13-2003, 01:32 AM
I did not want to read the whole thread but if this friend who has the server is like a friend at school or work and its a personal one, chances are he or she is running apache because its free and that would mean you can use the php mailer.