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Building a Custom Form

 

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Day One

Introduction
Student Sites
Web Structure
Computer Settings
Site & Pages
Explore FrontPage
Web Site Wizard
Shared Borders
Web Page Themes
Page Header
Adding Text
Homework 1
Web Hosting 101
Web Site Design
Home Page Design

Day Two

Introduction
Your Home Page
Adding Pages
About Us Content
Add More Pages
Deleting Pages
Navigation
Link Bars
Custom Link Bars
Hyperlinks
Adding Hyperlinks
Hyperlink Exercise
Publishing
Copy Your Site
Homework 2

Day Three

Introduction
Bullet List
Numbered List
Tables
Table Uses
Create Tables
Graphics Intro
Image Sizing
Photo Editing
Adding Graphics
Photogalleries
Gallery Tool
Saving Images
Adding Music

Day Four

Form Wizard
Custom Form
Form Exercise
Form Properties
Web Components
Add a Map
Add Search Box
Marquee
Buttons
Hit Counter
Split & Code View
On-Line Sales
PayPal Buttons
Building Traffic
Meta Tags
Search Engines
Appendix & FAQs
Adv Techniques
Interactive Web
Conclusion
Evaluation

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for your on-line transactions

Hands on Practice

We will design an on-line order form.

Step 1

  • Create a new page, name it orderform.htm, and title it Order On-Line.

  • Place your insertion point in the body text area, and type You can order our products using this form.

  • Click the Enter Key a couple times to move down 2 lines.  We will insert the Form here.

Step 2

The next step to to create the form enclosure.  This is represented as a dotted box that contains the Submit and Reset buttons.

  • Click on Insert, Form, and then drag the submenu onto your Design pane as a floating tool bar.

  • Click on the Form icon.

Step 3

  • A web form box opens.  Click the Enter key once or twice to add a couple of lines to the form box, opening it up.

 

Step 4

  • Place your insertion point on the second line in the form box.

  • Click on the Table button, and create a table with 4 columns and 4 rows.

  • Highlight the table.

  • Click on the Border button, and select No Borders to make the lines disappear.

 

Step 5

Your Form should look something like this. 

  • Add the text Product, Price, Color, Qty to the top row in the table.

  • Type Widget, Gadget, and Thingamabob into the Product column.

  • Type $14.95, $22.49, and $67.89 into the Price column.

Step 6

Step 7

Step 8

  • Right click inside the first Drop Down Box form field.

  • Select Form Field Properties from the Context menu.

Step 9

  • Change the Name to WidgetColor.  You main not leave any spaces in the Form Field Name.

  • Click on Add.  The Add Choice dialog opens.

  • Type the color Red into the Choice box.  Click OK.

  • Repeat for the other colors.

  • Now repeat the entire process for the other two Drop Down boxes.

If your choices are the same for multiple items, you can add the choices to one Drop Down Box, then copy and paste the completed box into the remaining cells.  You will need to go into the Form Field Properties dialog to correct the Name field only for each Drop Down Box.  This can save time if you are doing a longer list.

To see how the Form works, change to the Preview View and try filling it out.


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