Get Email via Web Forms with FormMail

FormMail is a tool Haverford has installed on our Web site allowing you to generate standard email using Web forms. These forms can be used to solicit feedback on your Web pages, review job applications, schedule people or events, or collect any other type of standardized data. Anyone with a forms capable browser, such as Netscape 2.0 or higher, can fill out a form on the Web.

You can create a Web form with any HTML editor. Dreamweaver, Haverford's supported HTML editor, provides some great tools for editing forms. See our tutorial for instructions on creating a Web form using FormMail. You can print out the tutorial as one long page, or use the table of contents below to refer to specific sections.

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1. Using Forms
2. Download the Template
3. Open the Template in Claris Home Page
4. Set up the Document Title
5. Access the FormMail CGI
6. Form Fields
   1. Types of Fields
   2. Field Names
   3. Field Values
7. Hidden Fields
   1. Recipient
   2. Subject
8. Text Field
   1. Realname
   2. Email
   3. Other Text Fields
9. Text Areas
10. Radio Buttons
11. Check Boxes
12. Pop-up Menus
13. Submit andReset
14. Processing the Form
15. Posting Your Web Form
16. Changing the Default Response Page
17. More Information