Chapter 15: Crowd Pleasing Form Extras

Overview

10-Second Summary

• Make Web forms more interactive by adding images and labels

• Set form validation rules to get the information you need

• Make search forms work properly by adjusting results

• Send a confirmation page to your visitors

• Add extra form information with a hidden field

• Create registration forms so your visitors can access special content

Once you start to use forms, you ll realize that the amount of information you receive from visitors, and the way the information is presented, is critical to your business operations. By getting your visitors to send you the information you need, in the correct format, you can easily use the form as a front end to a database that you can use for marketing and analysis.

In this chapter, you ll learn about different ways in which Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 can help you create forms that provide the information you need ”and are easy for your visitors to fill out. You ll learn how images and shortcuts can make forms more clickable by giving users keyboard shortcuts. You ll learn how to control the way user information is sent to you through forms validation. And you ll learn how to set up search forms, confirmation pages, hidden fields, and registration forms, all of which help you and your visitors interact more effectively through forms.