Creating an E-mail form in Frontpage 2003

MicroSoft are trying to lock their users into using MicroSoft only software. FrontPage claims to require a MicroSoft server to publish a web site that contains a feedback or any other kind of form. In this article we show you how to set up a form to submit something to your web site in Frontpage 2003 on our — or anyone elses’ — servers.

Creating an interactive form on your website

Formmail is an easy-to-use CGI program running on our Linux web server that sends the results of a submitted form as an email message. It can be used for many different types of form.

Web hosting

GreenNet offers a web hosting service which allows you to build a web site for the widest internet audience. All GreenNet websites are hosted on high performance Linux/Apache servers on the Internet backbone. These servers support PHP and CGI scripting and MySQL databases. The search engine is Ht://Dig. See our server hosting section for more details.

Form spam

Frequently asked questions and answers about spam received on or via websites.

Formmail example 1

EXAMPLE 1 This is a very simple fill-out form example. Whatever you type in the box below will be emailed back to wwwadmin@gn.apc.org. To test this form for yourself:

Formmail example 2

EXAMPLE 2

1) View the source of the HTML 2) Cut and paste the HTML code between the <FORM METHOD…..> and </FORM> tags. 3) Change the ‘Mailto’ field to your own email address. 4) Save the file as plain text in your normal HTML editor. 5) Upload the file to your site and call up the URL

Network news and actions

19 Nov 09 Sh!t Matters

– especially on World Toilet Day. CLTS is using the opportunity to raise awareness about the importance of sustainable and safe sanitation systems around the world.

17 Nov 09 Delays show fragility of Nigeria's oil delta amnesty

YENEGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Nigeria has yet to begin the process of educating and reintegrating thousands of former militants in the oil-producing Niger Delta, prompting some to question their decision to lay down arms for clemency.

14 Oct 09 Twitter can't be gagged: online outcry over Guardian/Trafigura order

Trafigura, a London-based oil trader connected with dumping toxic waste in Ivory Coast in 2006, was the most used word on micro-blogging site Twitter this morning.

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