Online Feedback Form Problems - FrontPage Related
Hi,
I am trying to create an online feeback form for our customers to use. I am new to web delvelopment and have used the FrontPage 2003 form wizard. I have uploaded it and when I hit "Submit" to test it I recieved the following:
"FrontPage Run-Time Component Page
You have submitted a form or followed a link to a page that requires a web server and the FrontPage Server Extensions to function properly.
This form or other FrontPage component will work correctly if you publish this web to a web server that has the FrontPage Server Extensions installed.
Click the <Back> arrow to return to the previous page."
I contacted our webspace and domain name provider and they told me that I have 98' FrontPage extensions installed on our site so I do not know why I recieve this message?
Lastly, it is setup to save in to _private/booking.txt, how would I access this folder to see the text files, will it be one file per form submitted?
I can see an option under form properties to send results to an email address, will this work automatically if I enter my email add or is there further work to do?
Sorry for the number of questions, but this is kind of new to me,
many thanks for any help,
Jack
I am trying to create an online feeback form for our customers to use. I am new to web delvelopment and have used the FrontPage 2003 form wizard. I have uploaded it and when I hit "Submit" to test it I recieved the following:
"FrontPage Run-Time Component Page
You have submitted a form or followed a link to a page that requires a web server and the FrontPage Server Extensions to function properly.
This form or other FrontPage component will work correctly if you publish this web to a web server that has the FrontPage Server Extensions installed.
Click the <Back> arrow to return to the previous page."
I contacted our webspace and domain name provider and they told me that I have 98' FrontPage extensions installed on our site so I do not know why I recieve this message?
Lastly, it is setup to save in to _private/booking.txt, how would I access this folder to see the text files, will it be one file per form submitted?
I can see an option under form properties to send results to an email address, will this work automatically if I enter my email add or is there further work to do?
Sorry for the number of questions, but this is kind of new to me,
many thanks for any help,
Jack
ASKER
Thank you for your responce. Our provider has now told me that they cannot offer later versions of FP server extensions as our website is on shared space and not a dedicated server.
I will get a quote for a dedicated server but I fear this will cost more than it is worth.
Is it possible to create the form using HTML code so that it negates the need for the server extensions, for examle I know Dreamweaver is a very good program to learn web design on but from what I hear a feedback form created using this does not need anything special from the web server.
Thank you for your comments regarding web development, :) I would like to take it further and i know Frontpage is not really the way but the basics of HTML etc are coming to me through it, i plan to get myself an edition of Dreamweaver as soon as possible and continue from their, I will have a browse of w3.org :)
Many thanks
Jack
I will get a quote for a dedicated server but I fear this will cost more than it is worth.
Is it possible to create the form using HTML code so that it negates the need for the server extensions, for examle I know Dreamweaver is a very good program to learn web design on but from what I hear a feedback form created using this does not need anything special from the web server.
Thank you for your comments regarding web development, :) I would like to take it further and i know Frontpage is not really the way but the basics of HTML etc are coming to me through it, i plan to get myself an edition of Dreamweaver as soon as possible and continue from their, I will have a browse of w3.org :)
Many thanks
Jack
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Many thanks for your help, I am going to look in to this and have a read of those links, hopefully will have it running by the end of the week, il be a hand-coder oneday! ;)
Jack
Jack
Glad to be able to help out.
Remember that as with all IT-related areas, self-education is an ongoing process - there is always something new to learn. You don't have to learn it all at once, learn things as you need them and can apply them. Good luck with everything.
Remember that as with all IT-related areas, self-education is an ongoing process - there is always something new to learn. You don't have to learn it all at once, learn things as you need them and can apply them. Good luck with everything.
Off topic - congrats on getting into a new field. Web dev is both fun and challenging and I hope it works out well for you. However, you may want to reconsider the tool you are using. Front Page is very limited and tends to write bloated, inefficient (and ineffective) code. It is often regarded as a good way to get started in web dev as it is fairly easy and intuitive to use, but if you are serious about web dev and hope to progress, you will ultimately have to unlearn a lot of stuff you are learning through Front Page and start over.
There is a group called the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C - www.w3.org) that is trying to standardize how things are done on the web. There are a lot of very good reasons for this that are too complex to go into here, but if you want to learn more about this, you should read 'What a Web Developer has to Know' (www.w3schools.com/site/site_intro.asp). BTW - the w3shools.com site isn't run by W3C, but it has a lot of great info and tutorials.
Anyway, that's my two cents.