Introduction

A form is way of allowing your website users to respond to the site by email. The form may be designed to simply provide a means of commenting on the site, through to complex order and information requests. The Freeway User Guide provides excellent coverage of the whole subject and you should refer to the guide wherever relevant.

This tutorial is about the "nuts and bolts" of setting up a form for your web site. There are lots of neat tricks in Freeway to make your form look really good but that is a design issue; we are just going to make a basic form that works! For this tutorial you will need the Freeway User Guide and a form mail script. Click here to download a PDF of this tutorial.

This tutorial uses the free FormMail script available from http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/ and is a suggested replacement for the one located at Matt's Script Archive. This tutorial follows the 'Compact' script, which is easiest to install and configure.

We advise that you study the README file that comes with the script for information about the form and how to configure it. Softpress Systems are unable to provide technical support regarding direct configuration of the script and we recommend any questions concerning this are directed to NMS.

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