A-hem, here we goooo....

[Blitzburgh]

G'evening everyone,

I would like to start this by letting you know that I am a novice compared to virtually everyone else on this site. Having said that, let me say this. I was duly impressed with the responses and help that have went with the threads and would like to post my own questions for the board. What I ask may be enormously simple but I am quite lost frankly.

Here is the thing, on my website I have a free program for download. I would like to make it necessarymandatory for the "requestor" to fill out an information form before they can download this free software. The page in question is http://www.veecal.com/free.htm

This is for no reason other than gathering e-mail information for the future to contact them again. Name, address, phone number, e-mail, etc.

If they don't fill out this form, they won't be able to access the software. Of course, I want to capture this data for my own use later on so would need to have the requestors info sent to my e-mail.

I appreciate any and all thoughts not just on this but on my site in general. I wrote it in Dreamweaver and it is my first stab at a website. I am sure that virtually every mistake known to man is on there and would appreciate the criticism. (Just not too much, smile)

Thanks again, Mike

[starrwriter]

You can't do what you want without knowledge of server side scripts and javascript.

Since you only know Dreamweaver, I would suggest having interested parties email you from your website and then you can send them the free program with installation instructions.

[Blitzburgh]

I kind of expected it was going to come down to something like that.

[pyro]

It wouldn't really be that hard, though. You could use pretty much any form script. Any with a redirect, that is. What you will do is have them fill out the form, and, once it submits, it will redirect them to the download page. If you want even more security, you can check for the referring page, so people can't just plug the address in their browser.

[Blitzburgh]

"...If you want even more security, you can check for the referring page, so people can't just plug the address in their browser..."

I have no idea what you mean by this. I may need to seriously sit down and read up on this a bit more to learn more about the possibilities of Java and server side scripts.

[pyro]

What I mean by that is that you can use a server side script to check what the referring page is, and if it is not your form handler, send them to the page where they can fill out the form. Does your server support PHP? If so, perhaps I can write you up something quick if you tell me what you want.