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forms
On our particular web server a specific CGI is provided that lets us write what are called 'forms'. Forms are web pages where your readers can fill in information (fill in a form, get it?) and when they submit the information it is sent to you.
Now some forms are used to put information into databases, but the content of a form is also able to sent to your email address. It is this that we will do.
The CGI that we use on our server is called NetForms, and like all CGIs it has a particular way of writing HTML for it to work.
However, it is very important to understand that there are two aspects of writing forms. There is writing the page itself with the form elements (this is constant no matter what CGI is being used), and then there is the form 'argument' which is where things vary depending on the CGI used.
If you'd like to look at the manual for NetForms it is available on our web server, though the simple example we'll do in the labs pretty much covers the basics.
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