Submission form with Frontpage extentions

Need assistance with creating web form made out of Excel document in an
HTML format.

I am thinking of using FrontPage or FrontPage extensions to send a form
via the host email program.

The host I use is http://www.omnis.com which supports Frontpage
extensions and CGI scripting.


Also, if anybody has any idea of where I can buy a scripting package to
assist in this if it
is somewhat difficult I would really appreciate it. I am under a time
constraint so thanks in advanced for any reply.

mc

netsurfer802 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com wrote:

I am thinking of using FrontPage or FrontPage extensions to send a
form
via the host email program.

Using FrontPage for anything (except maybe as a doorstop) is almost
certainly a bad idea.

You should use a server-side CGI script to receive form responses and
take appropriate action with them.

--
Dan

<netsurfer802 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

wow...that bad?

To whom and to what are you responding to?


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Restoring snipped text:

"Using FrontPage for anything (except maybe as a doorstop) is almost
certainly a bad idea."

On 4 Feb 2005 07:18:43 -0800, netsurfer802 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com wrote:

wow...that bad?

Yes. The HTML it produces isn't quite as bad as that produced by Word or
NetObjects Fusion, but it can be pretty grotesque. I have on occasion
tidied up the output of FrontPage; except in special cases it's easier
to throw it away and start again. One concrete example: a page which
took 30 seconds to display over a dial-up connection. As this was a
large table [1] I could do a lot to it with global edits. By pruning
away superfluous FP-generated rubbish I reduced the display time to
8 seconds, and the result looked better as well.


[1] Actually containing tabular data, in this case.

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Stephen Poley

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