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Comment
Form
This is a sample comment form that you may want to include in your site. Open this page into an HTML editor and modify it to suit your needs. Please see the Comments below for information on how to set this form up for use on your site. |
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Comments on How to Adapt this Form for Use on Your Site
Open this page in an HTML editor, such as Netscape's Composer.
In order to use this comment form on your KORRnet website, you need to modify a couple of the tags. If you are using Composer, the form tags will look like little yellow "tags." If you are using a word processor or some other editor that shows the code for the tags, you'll see the tags as text. Either way you can edit the tags so that the form will work on your site. Please refer to my forms page for more information on using forms on KORRnet, click here. Also, I made a user survey form with more form elements on it that you may use.
You will need to edit the second and eighth tags, that is, the "recipient" tag and the "return_link_url" tag.Please refer to the notes below for more information about the tags and modifications that can be made.So, if you are using Composer (if not, see the rest of the notes below), right click on the second tag and select HTML Tag Properties from the pop up menu (Mac, hold down the mouse button on the tag to display the menu). Change the email address to your email address.
Now, right click on the eighth tag and select HTML Tag Properties from the pop up menu. Replace the URL with the page you want users to return to after they submit their comments.
You can modify some of the other tags in the same way, but the form should work once you put it up on your site.
More Notes
Modify the HTML "code" if you are using a word processor. I put the changes that must be made in bold below.
The code for the form above looks like this:
(these tags are all hidden from the user)
<form action="/cgi-bin/public/formmail/FormMail.pl" method="POST">
<input
TYPE="hidden"
NAME="recipient"
VALUE="ssharp@korrnet.org"> (change the value of this tag to your email
address)
<input
TYPE="hidden"
NAME="subject"
VALUE="Generic NPO Template Comment Form (this will be the subject of
the email this comment form generates . . . change it if you want a different
subject)
<input
TYPE="hidden"
NAME="required"
VALUE="name,phone"> (this makes the "name" and "phone" blanks on the
form required informtion . . . that is, the form will not work unless these
two blanks are filled in)
<input
TYPE="hidden"
NAME="env_report"
VALUE="REMOTE_HOST, HTTP_USER_AGENT (don't change this one!)
<input
TYPE="hidden"
NAME="print_config"
VALUE="organization,subject"> (don't change this one!)
<input
TYPE="hidden"
NAME="title"
VALUE="Generic NPO Template Comments"> (this will be the title of the
confirmation page that the form generates . . . change it if you want a
different title)
<input
TYPE="hidden"
NAME="return_link_url"
VALUE="http://www.korrnet.org/chic/templates/generic (change the value
of this tag to the URL you want the user to return to after they have submitted
their comments)
<input
<input
TYPE="hidden"
NAME="return_link_title"
VALUE="Back to the Generic Templates (this is the title of the link
that returns the user to the URL in the previous tag)
<input
TYPE="hidden"
NAME="bgcolor"
VALUE="#FFFFFF"> (background color of the generated page)
<input
TYPE="hidden"
NAME="link_color"
VALUE="#CC0000"> (link color of the generated page)
<input
TYPE="hidden"
NAME="vlink_color"
VALUE="#CC0000"> (visited link color of the generated page)
<input
TYPE="hidden"
NAME="alink_color"
VALUE="#FF9900"> (active link color of the generated page)
<p>
(this is where the form the user sees begins)
Your Name:
<p>
<input
TYPE="text"
NAME="name"
VALUE=""
<input
TYPE="text"
<p>Your Phone Number:
<p>
<input
TYPE="text"
NAME="phone"
VALUE=""
<input
TYPE="text"
<br>
<p>Your Comments:
<p>
<textarea
NAME=" comments"
ROWS=10
COLS=55
</textarea>
<br>
<input
TYPE="submit"
NAME="Submit"
VALUE="Send My Comments
<input
TYPE="reset"
VALUE="Reset This Form">
</form>