Forms in Dreamweaver

This entry is part 10 of 13 in the series Dreamweaver tutorials

Section 9. Forms in Dreamweaver

We want to add a form for the visitors to give us the feedback of our website, to the contact.html and at the bottom make a heading called suggestions and complains,

press on the tool bar selection menu,
choose forms,
press the form icon now press the text field icon,
click on the right side of the text field,
press enter and type message,
now press the area icon in the tool bar of the selection menu,
click on the right side of the text field and press enter
type e-mail and press text field icon and click on the right side of the text field and press enter
and press the button icon and click on the edit box marked label and type in your button name ie; submit etc.,
now click on the edit box in the message line,
now click on the edit box char width at the bottom and type 40 and click on the edit box named num lines type 8 and press enter,
now preview in IE and see the effect.

However to actually make the form work you will need to install and configure a cgi, php or asp form script. You can also use a free email form service.