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How do Forms work?

A form can be on or attached to your Web page, which, when filled out, will automatically be sent to an e-mail address of your choice. Forms come in handy when you want to ask readers of your Web page specific question and you want the answers sent back to you with minimal work from the reader. When a reader fills out the form and presses the submit button, then the system processes the form and e-mails the result directly formated or unformated to you. This works almost instantly. Delays can occur in the event of internet related slowdowns.

All of our Web pages will have a link (connection) to your e-mail address (if you gave us one) for free. That means that the reader can click on the link and send you an e-mail without typing in the address. This way, however, you will not be able to ask specific questions or give specific choices as you would with a form.

To demonstrate how this works and how the unformated result could look like, please enter you e-mail address in the following block.
Enter Your E-mail Address:

Here is a list of features you can have on a form:

Text Field: Enables the reader to type in text.
Example: Name:

Text Area: Enables the reader to type in a longer text.

Example: Suggestions:

Text Fields can be defined in length, that means how many characters the reader can enter. The same applies to the Text Areas, with the addition of how many lines the reader can enter.

Check Boxes: Lets the reader mark one item. It can be used as a list by having several of them, and then several can be marked.

Example: Check one or all colors you like:

red
blue
green
orange
violet

Note that you can optionally set one of them as the default.

Radio Buttons: Lets the reader choose and mark one item out of a list.

Example: Choose a sport you practice:

Soccer
Baseball
Basketball
Football
Hockey

Radio Buttons can be nested, that means that you can also have sub-choices.

Single Selection List: Lets the reader scroll up and down a list of choices and lets him/her select one choice.

Example: choice of state:

Multiple Selection List: Same as Single Selection List with the option that lets him/her select several choices.

Check Boxes and Radio Buttons are generally used for a small selection of choices. For a long selection of choices the Selection Lists are more appropriate. The Multiple Selection List can be more difficult for the novice computer user, because the way multiple items have to be selected may vary with different software programs.

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