Re: Form/Confirmation Not Working

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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 09:28:20 +0100

First, rename your pages to remove the spaces, for example rename
Design It form.htm to Design_it_form.htm
Spaces in links are bad HTML, and will break links.

Second, replace your Word Art with ordinary graphics. Word Art uses VML
graphics, and is only visible in IE5 and later. On your site the absolutely
positioned art is overlaying the text, making the text impossible to read.

Third - your choice of fonts may not be visible in many systems. Those that
do not have, e.g. Kristen ITC will see Times New Roman instead. In my
opinion, the font size being used is Huge, tantamount to shouting!

See www.rxs-enterprises.com/tests/sendmail/ regarding the installation of
cgi/Perl scripts. This is a very simple installation of formmail.pl, but
may help.

The root folder is the folder holding your home page - www.divadesigns.com/
In general, you cannot make apps. run from the root folder, but it does
depend on what you mean by an app., and how your site is set up.

Ron

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"Crumbear" <Crumbear@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I am building a website for my home-based business.  I'm trying to build a
form including drop-down boxes with separate options in each that will end
up building a total product.  I need all of the options chosen from the drop
down boxes and entered in the text boxes to be summarized on a confirmation
page when they hit the 'Next' button (renamed from 'Submit').  On the
confirmation page, if the information they chose is correct, then they can
add this product to their shopping cart from the button at the bottom.  My
problem is this:  I have loosely created the 'Design' page; enable Formmail
through my host server; make the necessary configurations in the Form Field
Properties for all of the drop-downs so that the chosen options should be
sent to the conf. page, but nothing seems to work.  I have been trying to
fix this since 8am saturday morning, and I'm sure I'm about to go blind.  I
just want to send the information chosen from the fields in the 'Design It'
form page to a confirmation page for the customer's review.  I'd also like
to customize the confirmation page, if possible, instead of having the
standard boring 'catch all' page.  I also must tell you that I know
absolutely nothing about CGI Scripts, as I'm extremely new to this and very
wet behind the ears.  I've been to Hotscripts.com and downloaded a couple of
scripts, but even after reading the Read Me files and the install info, I
still am cluesless on how to install the scripts and make them work.  I
don't know what the 'root directory' is, or how to make apps run from inside
it.  If any of you have any ideas on how to help me (in layman's terms,
please!), I'd truly appreciate it.  I'm so sorry for my ignorance, but
everyone has to start somewhere, and I sure do know alot more than I did a
month ago...
>
> Here's the link:
http://www.mydivadesigns.com/Pages/Design%20It%20form.htm
>
>
> Thanks in advance....Jen

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