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Form Mailer Program

We provide two form mailer programs for you to use...

One located at "
http://www.kwdhost.com/cgi-bin/formmail/formmail.exe"
This will send you completed forms direct to your email inbox.

Another located at "http://www.kwdhost.com/cgi-bin/formpost/formpost.exe"
This will notify you that a form has been completed via email, and provide a link allowing you to pick up the form off of the web.


How to make the forms..

1. We are assuming the author of the forms already has a basic knowledge of HTML and is creating their own website.

2. Create any form you want using any standard input boxes, combo boxes, text fields, radio buttons etc.

Rules to follow:
Whatever is contained in the First field will be assumed to be the "Title" for the form
e.g. "Some Text" will be the title for the example form shown below.

Any TextArea fields should have a name beginning with TXT (e.g. TXTdescription).

3. Modify the last item on your form (usually the submit button) so that it contains the email address of where you'd like your form to go in the "Name" field. (This must be a valid email account that is hosted by us).

4. Next, modify the <form> tag so that it looks like:
<form name="formexample" action="http://www.kwdhost.com/cgi-bin/formmail/formmail.exe" method="post">
or:
<form name="formexample" action="http://www.kwdhost.com/cgi-bin/formpost/formpost.exe" method="post">
(you can give your form any name)

Thats it!


An example form:

My Form:
Type a title:

Type some information about this subject:


The HTML source code for the above form (you can copy and paste this into the source of your own web pages, just change the email address)

<form name="formexample" action="http://www.kwdhost.com/cgi-bin/formmail/formmail.exe" method="post">
  <b>My Form:</b><br>
  Type a title:<br>
  <input type="text" name="TextBox1" value="Some Text" size="20"><br>
  Type some information about this subject:<br>
  <textarea name="txt_Area1" rows="5" cols="50">Some info</textarea><br>
  <input type="reset" name="resetbutton" value="Reset Information">
  <input type="submit" name="nonexistantaddress@kwdhost.com" value="Submit Form">
</form>

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