If you want to add a simple form to your site and can not be bothered using special scripting for your cgi-bin then try this simple "Form to Email" code:

<A HREF="MAILTO:youremailaddress?
SUBJECT=Your Subject Text Here

&BODY=Please Add:%0D
Name:%0D
Address:[/color}%0D
[color:RED]Country %0D
">Click Here To Activate Email Form</a>


Text in red is where you place your required text. Add further headings with the appropriate code as well.

With thanks to Pjay for input

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New to this...exactly where does this go? Into the code editor or where?

Learning but novice...

Add the text into the Code Editor -- just as you would in the Text Editor. Code Editor icon is on the left-hand toolbar.

I am very new to this. I would like to create a pop-up window on my home page that asks veiwer to acknowledge if they are over 18 years of age, with boxes to check, yes/no how would I do this?

You could do that with a form. You probably will need some special code (could be Javascript) to read the visitor input, and based on that, decide whether to allow access to a gateway page to the rest of your site.

If you use Google you may find some examples already written that you can use immediately. If you can wait a few days, the next version of SiteSpinner, almost released, has built-in forms support.

This is excellent news... our pleadings for built-in form support have been heeded. Brucee, any other snippets of news on the new release available?

Thanks

My lips are sealed

But I think you'll like it -- I do.

In the meantime I highly recommend Web For Designer www.webformdesigner.com which also has an excellent user forum

Does anyone know if form generation is going to be in Web Engine also or just SiteSpinner. This is great news!

I am trying to insert 3 line breaks between name, email address, etc in the following code. (The <p> does not have any effect) Please help:

<A HREF="MAILTO:marleen33594@yahoo.com?
SUBJECT= Re: St. Mary Website Inquiry

&BODY=My inquiry is as follows:%0D<p><p><p><p><p><p>
Name:%0D<p><p><p><
Email Address:[/color}%0D<p><p><p>
[color:RED]Telephone number: %0D
">Click Here To Activate Email Form</a>

The <p> is an HTML paragraph tag and cannot be used outside of an HTML page.

I see you have inserted the %0D code, which is a character replacement code for a carriage return. You may want to try the line feed character code %0A in conjunction with it.

This may or may not work depending upon the system that encodes/decodes it. Plain text DOS files expect the CR/LF pair, but *unix files and Macs expect just a NL (new line) character.

Other character substitution codes to try if the above do not work are:

\r (return)
\n (new line)

The changes worked! Here is the exact code I used after several experiments using your suggestions:
<A HREF="MAILTO:marleen33594@yahoo.com?
SUBJECT= Re: St. Mary Website Inquiry

&BODY=
Name:%0A %0A
Email Address:%0A %0A
Telephone number:%0A %0A
My inquiry is as follows:%0A %0A %0A ">Click Here To Activate Email Form</a>

QUESTION: Are you able to click on the link belows and will it take you to your default email program with the appropriate information already installed in your email? http://www.stmarytampa.org/test.html

Tried your link and I got the results you expected.

That works for me too with IE7 and Outlook Express.

There will be email programs out there that don't behave like Outlook Express. For that reason, I think a form mail script is better -- it does not depend on the email program your vistor has installed.

There is an example of a form mail script in the "Using Forms" tutorial under Help > Tutorials.

I tested your link and it opens my default mail (yahoo) but with an error saying:

name: TypeError
message:'kPartner' is undefined
number:-2146823279
description:'kPartner' is undefined

Unfortunately I have no idea what that means . I've tried similar links from other pages and it works there.

I think I'll follow Brucee's suggestion and learn forms from Site Spinner tutorials. He's usually correct. Thanks, Brucee.

Another way I find practical and time saving is to use a free software WebFormDesigner. It's very easy to incorporate in SS.

I've used Webform Designer on this project:
http://lifeenrichmenttampa.org/donation.html and have it set up to forward to my email address from Webform's website. A little complicated; but, it works. Now, I have a nice template to work with.

I would still like to tackle forms using Site Spinner as it seems like a nice challenge.

From that method, your email address is open for bots, which inmho poses a security risk.

The chances of a spam bot picking up on it is slim, but once it does you can pretty much count your email as deceased. You'll never free it from spam.

I would suggest using a webform purely because it looks so much more proffesional, it's not too hard to create and incorperate.

With this information, I'm going to REMOVE any code over emails. I'll take a look at creating a contact form instead. I'm up to the challenge; but, it may take me awhile. Webform Designer has the option of reflecting the eform to them first and they will forward the note to the intended recipient. Would that pose any threat?