There are FOUR basic things you'll need to make a form. That's it. FOUR. Learn these first, and you will have all you need to make a simple form any old time. There's other stuff, but we'll just do a simple form for now.
Thing One
First (and this will NOT work unless you have this exactly right)
you need your opening form tag.
Don't forget to use your OWN GeoCities Member name, all in lower case, at the end of it, of
course. It looks like this:
<form METHOD=POST
ACTION="/cgi-bin/homestead/mail.pl?your_member_name">
READ THESE POINTERS: they're here to help you out!
A few people are writing in and asking why their forms don't work when they use this. I check their form tag and it's exact... EXCEPT they miss the first "/". Be sure it starts with "/cgi-bin/homestead..."!
And don't change "homestead" to "Hollywood" or "Athens" or anything; it's supposed to be "homestead".
If your page isn't in GeoCities: Check with your provider and make sure they support Forms, and if they do, find out what the <form> tag format should be for THEIR script. It will probably be slightly different from the above example.
After the opening FORM tag, you'll want some text boxes, usually at least one for the writer's name and one for their e-mail address:
You can now create basic forms that look good, and (here's a bonus you might not have realized) you just picked up a couple of neat tricks that make the form work better than most forms out there. "I have?? What are they?" you might ask. We'll cover that on the next page.
So let's check out what happens when a form is processed by the GeoCities Server, and see what your neat tricks do.
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