dreamweaver courses in london - Email subscription form and coding bugs

Hi Joanna

With regard to your email subscription problem. I would suggest that you set up a simple database on your web server. This means that you will be able to input the details from these fields into this database. Once in the database you can access the data and use it to send out your emails. The way this works is that when the user enter their name and email address and click the submit button, the button will trigger some code that connect you to the database and inserts the details from the input boxes into the database.

The creation of a search is slightly more complex, you have a number of option with that which include:
Building Google into your site, so that you have a search box, that uses Google to search within the domain of your website.
You can just build in a simple find, which will locate the words on that page.
Depending on whether you work for a company with a programming team, you can get one of the programmers to write you a search engine that will search your site.

With regards to the HTML clean-up, this means that if you import html from word and notepad it may not be formatted properly. If you go to the Dream weaver menu and go to commands then HTML cleanup and then within the new window that opens select the options that you wish to use, then click OK. This should clean up your html code, so you should no longer get any errors such as you are experiencing currently.

Hope this helps

David

Jo,

If you are finding it hard to set up a database to store customer mailing list information, http://www.bravenet.com may be able to help. They have a wide range of free services that are easy to set up and come with simple instructions for the beginner.

For mailing lists, see http://www.bravenet.com/webtools/elist/

Regards, Rich