Forms for Web Pages

Forms can be very handy to have on a web site. They are a way for the viewer to give feedback to the author of the site. Forms can be used to ask questions of the viewer, collect demographic data or to allow the viewer to make comments about the site. There are two parts to forms on the web. The first part is what the viewer sees and fills out: fields, buttons, menus, etc. The second part is called a CGI script which is used to gather all of the input and send it to the author. It used to be that you had to be a programmer to create the CGI script. Now, there are many web sites that offer a free service to create and customize a form for you. Below is a list of sites that offer this service.

Response-O-Matic a free form processor that you can use to add forms to your web pages with no programming

Freedback Creates free forms in 10 minutes.

The Web Developer's Virtual Library Use the mailto function instead of CGI to send form data to your e-mail address

Miningco.com A list of sites that have information on creating forms.

Webmonkey A tutorial on creating HTML forms

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