Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 03/25/07 07:32

Scripsit christopher_board@yahoo.co.uk:

> I am trying to write a contact us page on my website.

Stop trying that. Do, or do not; there is no try. Simply write what you
would include in a business card or a leaflet. Using simple HTML markup, of
course; this typically means little more than <div> elements and, inside
them, some <a> elements.

> I have a form set up

Remove it. Then check that you have actually included all the relevant
information. Print the page, or use print preview, to see that the
information appears properly on paper, too. _Then_ consider whether you need
a form, too; the answer is really "No". Well, it's kinda "Yes", in fact, but
you need to make it a _good_ form, and that seems the exceed the capacity of
almost all authors who create contact forms. (I won't list all the common
errors.)

> where users can enter there name and last name and comments but
> I don;t how to make the submit button send all the information in the
> different text boxes in the form via email.

Well, you would need to check your ISP's information on form-to-email
scripts that you can use on their server. But don't bother. It's probably
not of reasonable quality - I bet it doesn't even echo user input to the
user, so that if the user wants to keep a copy of his message, he has to
create it separately.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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