How to Develop a Feedback Form for Your Website
Using Dreamweaver 8

By A.D. WDT-California Web Design

Most websites that you visit will probably provide some sort of tool for their visitors to send their messages to the webmaster. Within this context Feedback forms and contact forms are the most popular ones. Feedback forms are basically forms which visitors can complete and send without using their email account. They usually contain information such as name, address, phone number, email addresses.

In this tutorial section we will teach you how to add a feedback form to the website that you are designing using Macromedia Dreamweaver.

Feedback Form Steps:

Designing a web page that has a feedback form involves four different steps which we will discuss in this tutorial. Even if you are not an expert designer you will find these information easy to understand and simple.

1. First, you need a blank web page or a new page from your template. Then, place the mouse point where you want the form to appear. Select Insert Form, or simply click on the form icon in the forms tab. By clicking on form icon Dreamweaver inserts an empty form into your web page. Then you can add your fields and labels using from the form's tab.
   
   Next step is to specify the posting method, which your server uses to transmit the data to the server (you can get these information from your website hosting company). Always use tables to provide structure for form objects and fields. When using tables in forms, make sure all the table tags are placed between the form tags. When designing forms, always remember to label the form fields with descriptive text. This will let your users know what they are responding to.
   
   
2. Second step is to create the landing page known as thank you page, which your visitors see after they send the message to your server. It is important to thank your visitors for their email and tell them that you have received their message.