Word X html forms cgiemail vicious circle

[JANET]

Hello:

As the subject tries to convey, I am using Word X on our new IMac and
trying to transfer our webpage and order form (which was previously
done - rather effortlessly, I might add - with WordPerfect html) using
Word X. It hasn't been too bad until I've gotten to the "submit"
button on the form. No matter what "action" I subscribe to it, the
form just reloads itself in my browser and includes all of the entered
data up on the address line of the browser and nothing is sent to our
cgiemail folder!

I've played around all day with cgiemail, cgiecho, trying different
MIME encoding (what exactly do they want here?), trying just a simple
mailto:, but it still just reloads the form.

In addition, our form has previously had a hidden element that loads a
pretty "success" page. I am unable to get the inserted "hidden"
command to go to that pretty file.

The order form as it stands now can be found at
https://secure.ihot.com/~ahr/SecureOrderForm.htm I've got a problem
with the graphics too, but think I can figure it out once I figure out
where they want each one to be ftped to. I use the same graphics in
many different pages, so it seems awfully redundant to keep having to
ftp them to several places, but that appears to be the case (?)!

After all I've done today it wouldn't surprise me if someone out there
tells me that Word X is not compatible with cgi, but I really don't
want to have to pay $49 per incident to find this out. Can anyone
help me out with this?

Thank you,

Janet

 

[Jim Gordon]

Hi Janet,

Word's save as HTML feature is really good at saving word processing
documents in a way that web browsers can display the documents almost
exactly as they looked in Word.

The form tools ought to work, but the interface is not especially intuitive
as you have discovered.

There is a free tool you might want to try out. Download a copy of Mozilla
1.5 from http://www.mozilla.org/ and give the web authoring tool a try. If
that doesn't do the trick for you, post back and we can try to get you
through the form fields in Word.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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[JANET]

Hello Jim - or anyone else:

Thank you for answering my earlier query on the newsgroup about trying
to publish our website using Word. I have since figured out (I'm
pretty sure) that the vicious cycle I referred to is caused by
security certificate problems with Internet Explorer (there are a lot
of similar problems noted on that newsgroup when people try to enter
secure sites with IE on Mac OS X. I downloaded the most recent
version of IE and it's even worse than it was before... Also, Word
adds tons of superfluous coding which at least triples the size of my
previously done WordPerfect html files and with all our jpgs I don't
think Word is the right web developer program for us.

So...I have downloaded Mozilla and am getting used to it. I have
tried to create our order form using its composer, but I cannot find
the place to insert the "form action" information in order to actually
have the form field info posted to cgiemial. I've pulled down every
menu multiple times. Are you familiar enough with html and Mozilla to
help me out again, or at least send me to someone who is? Mozilla
Help is no help in this area. It explains what I'd find in those
fields (if I was able to fill them in) when I am in navigator mode
browsing the site (View/Page Info/forms), but no such Page Info
option appears in the compose mode.

Thank you,

Janet Sclar
Amity Heritage Roses

 

[Jim Gordon]

Hi

There are lots of web pages that explain how to make forms in HTML.

Here's a search that gives some helpful web sites:

http://www.hotbot.com/adv.asp?prov=HotBot&query=How+to+make+HTML+form&ps=&loc=s

earchbox&tab=web&lang=&dfi=&dfe=&region=&wfc=2&wfr=&wfw=&wfq=&wfr=&wfw=&wfq=
&date=0&past=&dateop=after&month=1&day=&year=2003&pcu=&adf=>

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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