Feedback Forms Tutorial

Websites are a great way for you to communicate information to your users, but it's pretty much one-way communication unless you add some type of way that your users can communicate with you. This is where feedback forms come into play.

A form may be as simple as a single text box with two buttons, such as Google©...

...or as complex as a 100 question survey that includes multiple choice, text boxes, fill in the blank, and multiple selection capabilities.

For the purpose of this web site assignment, you will be creating a simple feedback form. There are two steps in the process of putting forms on your website, the actually building of the form using HTML, and the behind-the-scenes processing of the form using a script, typically a CGI or PERL script.

You can build a form using Dreamweaver or FrontPage, or you can use a service that will build the form and provide the script to make it work. If you build it yourself, you'll have to work with your ISP to get the processing step done. They should be able to provide you with a CGI script that works on their server.

Let's find out how....