The most current information about creating forms using Dreamweaver 8 is listed elsewhere. The information listed here on this page was creating using screen captures from Dreamweaver 4. The sections that talk about FormHandler coding would still apply, and it would not matter what version of Dreamweaver you are using.
Creating the Form You Can See
- General comments about forms
- Text fields
- Lists and menus (as in drop-down lists)
- Check box fields
- Radio button fields
- The Submit and Reset buttons
Making Your Form Accessible
- Adding a contact for each form
- Adding a label tag and a label ID for each field
- Layouts can make accessibility coding impossible
Getting Email Responses from Your Form
- Working with Formhandler
- The success message
- Requiring fields
- Email responses
- The optional or not-used email field
- Email summary
Getting Data from Your Form
These lessons were used in an electronic classes given by Linda Ffolliott, Webmaster, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Arizona. The last two groups of lessons relate to using Formhandler, which is a commercial program that has to be purchased and installed on your server, in order for the form to work. This program is available for use by persons in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, who have their sites housed on the main CALS server.
More detailed documentation from the CALS Networking Lab about the Formhandler script is found at cals.arizona.edu/agnet/web/cgi/formhandler/