Need some help frist time useing dreamweaver

Question

Hey all,
I am totaly new to Dreamweaver and am needing some help. I am
needing to make a feedback form. Would need it to e-mail me the
feedback to something like [email protected] I also need to know
how to make a footer for the copyright and desiged by, on each page
without having to manually entering them. Any help I could get
would be awsome.

Answer 1

There are only two ways to process form data -
1. Use mailto:[email protected] as the action of the form
2. Use a server-side scripting method to a) harvest the
form's data, b)
process it in some manner, e.g., enter it into a database, c)
formulate and
send an email to one or more email recipients, and d)
redirect the visitor
to some ending page
Method 1 is quite simple, and is also the least reliable. It
depends both
on your visitor having an email client already installed on
their computer -
this eliminates public computers, or home users without email
clients
installed (more and more it seems) - and on the installed
email client
responding to
the mailto call. It is not possible to use this method *and*
send the
visitor to a
thank you page as well.
Method 2a is the preferred method, since it eliminates the
problems of
method
1, but it means that you have to grapple with
server-scripting somehow (ASP,
CF, PHP, perl, etc.).
Method 2b would be to use some third-party form processing,
like
http://www.bebosoft.com/products/formstogo/.
You would have to decide which of these methods is best for
your needs,
but if it's Method 2a, then start by asking your host what
they provide for
form
processing. If it's 2b, then read their FAQ/instructions
carefully.
For your footer, investigate the use of DW's Templates (use
F1 Help to read
about them), or of server-side includes (again, F1 Help will
give you some
info here, as will Google).
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Adobe Community Expert
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"Xysos_Designs" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Hey all,
> I am totaly new to Dreamweaver and am needing some help.
I am needing to
> make
> a feedback form. Would need it to e-mail me the feedback
to something like
> [email protected] I also need to know how to make a
footer for the
> copyright
> and desiged by, on each page without having to manually
entering them. Any
> help
> I could get would be awsome.
>