Instructional Links

GETTING STARTED

1. download / install / open

2. logo

3. pages

4. mp3 player

5. flash image display

6. flash buttons

7. Zooom menu (animated icons)

8. themed background image
    ( index page )

9. themed background images
    ( template pages )

10. themed image
    ( transparent image )

11. vertical slidemenu

12. horizontal dropmenu

13. bottom links / copyright

14. static icons

15. search form

16. photo gallery

17. contact form page

18. catalog page

19. faq page

20. bookmark button

21. optimizing your web pages for search engines 

22. publishing your web site

23. insert the optional scroller

22. add site wide content boxes

 

Your Contact Form has not yet been set up. Please read below for the 3 best options.

VIDEO LINKS: [ contact-form-page ] click to open video in a new window

if you are having troubles viewing the video's online, please download the video from the link below to view locally on your computer.

The download package includes a web page for viewing the video files, and several SWF or FLV video files.

Just download the zip file, extract, then double click on the 'web page' to view the video. 

VIDEO LINKS for download: contact-form-page

Overview

The contact page, is a form based page.  Form pages take the information entered by your visitors into the 'form fields' or the page, and send that information to your web server which is then directed to an email address, database, web page. The 'web server' must be instructed on how to handle this information. It's not automatic and you will need to decide the best method of connecting the form page, to your web server. There are several options, we'll work with the 3 best.

INSTRUCTIONS

Option 1: setting up a form page on a server running FrontPage extensions

** you must edit and publish your website in FrontPage or Expression Web for this option to work. You must publish your website using the built in 'Publish to Web' command located in the File menu of both FP and EW.

Many web servers have the option of running FrontPage Extensions, or Microsoft's Sharepoint services. If your hosting account allows for either of these options, you may want to consider installing ( FP Extensions / Sharepoint Services ) as it's the easiest of all 3 options.

Step 1: install FP Extensions / Sharepoint Services by contact your hosting company or login into your hosting control panel and installing one of these options

Step 2: open the contact page

  • right click inside the 'form area' (click next to a form field)
  • select "Form Properties"
  • select "Send to" (Requires FrontPage Server Extensions)
  • enter the 'email address' to which the form information should be sent to

    You can modify your form options, by clicking on the Options button.
  • confirmation page
  • save to a text file or web page
  • email formatting

*** note: when you have completed with the form properties, and click OK, a warning will display. The warning tells you the page may be based on a 'disk based' location would you like to remove the 'email recipient' CLICK NO. Your updates will be saved, but you'll always get this message when working on a local web.

I recommend a quick read through the program HELP file, to learn more about the optional form properties.
*** to access help files in FP or EW, look to the top right of the program, and type in a question such as 'form properties optional'.

Option 2: setting up a form page on a server NOT running FrontPage extensions

Your form page requires one bit of information in order to complete the set up and this information is provided by your web hosting company. The 'form' in your contact page contains 2 parts, the method and the action. The method is set, you don't need to change that. The action 'tells' the form where to send the information. Lost already :) No need to worry, we'll take you through each step. The form in your page, is a bit of HTML code. When using the <form> tag in HTML, the web browser understands that any information entered into any 'form fields' within that form, need to be sent somewhere. You need to tell it where to go!

If you are publishing your site to a NON FP / Sharepoint server, the 'best' option is to contact your web host, or go to your web hosting 'help' or 'troubleshooting' page and look for information on setting up form pages. Form pages need some method of sending the information to your web server (via a form handler). Your hosting company should provide examples of how to 'connect' your form page to their web server. In most cases, they will provide a simple 'line' of code, that you would use for the opening <form> tag. The default <form> tag in your contact page connects to this instruction page. Most instructions will provide the 'action=' required for your opening for tag, you won't really need to copy the entire line, just the information dealing with the action.

instructions:

Log into your web hosting control panel, and look for information or troubleshooting on setting up forms.

Look for the information dealing with the 'action'

  • copy the code provided by your hosting company ( only copy the information that is after the action= and inside the double quotes  action=" xxxxx " )
  • open your contact page
  • switch to code view
  • scroll down the page until you find the following:

    <form method="post" action="http://resources.i3dthemes.com/product-help/g8/pinnacle/contact-form-page.htm">

  • highlight the information inside the double quotes ( http://resources.i3dthemes.com/product-help/g8/pinnacle/contact-form-page.htm  )
  • paste the information copied from your web host

Option 3: setting up a form page with the FREE form hander service for luckymarble members

The FREE form handler service for our members is also a viable option. With the added benefit of using the ( optional ) captcha  validation.

Please visit Firewidget.com and select one of the available options.