Getting your Microsoft FrontPage forms to work only takes a few easy steps.

Step 1: Create The Form

IMPORTANT: When naming your form page, please ensure that there are no spaces in the name of your contact form or feedback form.

First of all, you must design your form using Microsoft FrontPage. If you have not created a form yet, you can do so by selecting File -> New Page from the menu and then clicking on Page Templates... under "New from template" on the right-hand side of your screen. In the Page Template window double-click on Form Page Wizard.

Step 2: The Form Properties

IMPORTANT: Please ensure that there are no spaces in the name of your contact form or feedback form.

Once you have created a form, right-click the submit button and select form properties, you should see the following screen:



Click on the Send to other option and then click Options.

Step 3: Form Action Instructions
A new window will pop-up which lets you specify what action is taken when the submit button is pressed.



Just type /cgi/formmail in the Action box. Then click OK. Next click Advanced on the "form properties" screen, then click Add. You will see a box pop-up like this:



Type recipient in the name field and then the E-mail address (such as yourname@yourdomain.com) you want the form results sent to in the value field. That's all you need to do in order to get your forms to work with Netfirms and FrontPage.

If you want to create a customized thankyou.html page that will be displayed after the user clicks the "Submit" button, you can create a new Name/Value pair.

In the Advanced Form Properties window, click Add again. Enter redirect in the "Name" field and under "Value", enter the URL location of your thankyou.html page in your site, like this: http://yourdomain.com/thankyou.html

NOTE: When viewing the source code, the code should look similar to:

<!--webbot bot="SaveResults" S-Email-Format="TEXT/PRE" S-Email-Address="yourname@yourdomain.com" B-Email-Label-Fields="TRUE" S-Builtin-Fields="REMOTE_NAME REMOTE_USER HTTP_USER_AGENT Date Time" U-Confirmation-Url="http://www.yourdomain.com/thankyou.htm" startspan S-Date-Format="%B %d, %Y" S-Time-Format="%I:%M %p" --><input TYPE="hidden" NAME="VTI-GROUP" VALUE="0"><!--webbot bot="SaveResults" endspan i-checksum="43374" -->

To watch a movie on how to configure forms in FrontPage, click here.

Troubleshooting Tips: Once you have created and published your web form according to the instructions, you should test your web form. If you are not receiving emailed copies of the webforms submitted from your website, click here for troubleshooting tips.