Question:
SS is a fantastic program, but its most glaring shortcoming is that it cannot create email forms, which are a total necessity. I am starting another major commercial website for a client this week and the prospect of having to do the coding of the email forms in another program is daunting.
Lets all hue and cry, go on our knees and BEG the Virtual Mechanics to implement this long-promised feature.
Please give your input here and let's all make this happen already!
Thanks
plaZma

Choices:
I really, really need this feature NOW!
Yeah, we need this!
It can wait
I don't need it
What's an email form??

 

In the meantime, this one works quite well:
http://www.webformdesigner.com and is free.

True, Web Form Designer is very cool, and considering that it's free, its actually fantastic. I used it here http://www.burlington.co.za/entry.html
in a site I'm busy finishing now.
But it would be so much more cool if we could just get it done inside Sitespinner.
I migrated to Sitespinner from Antenna (http://www.stormdance.net) and it has such great form-handling capabilities. Hence my clamouring for VM to help us out here. (Are you guys listening?)
Hehe, let's see how the voting goes, so far so good - it looks like I'm not the only one that wants this to happen.
Peace
plaZma

Yeh, it would be nice if you could create multi-layered forms as this takes ages by code and always screws up sumwhere. Personally i'm not sure how important i think this is, its somehwere near the top is houl imagine. Would be more handy. Especially since WFD has "issues" with my computer, but thats something to do with the way its been set up. My pc is very, shall we say unique.
Is there a "features we are adding" list somewhere, it would be a good thing to have.
Especially if you could vote which you thought was the most important.

I am pretty sure a form creator in SiteSpinner will happen. We don't have a 'coming features' list because we cannot guarrantee something will be there until it is there but we take all the comments here into to serious consideration.

Polls here have not gotten great responses here in the past either.

I had a look at Antenna (sorry gang) and Yuk! Makes SS even better then ever!

Well, now you know why I bought Sitespinner. But, such as Antenna is, it can do forms, and it does it well, too. We must give credit where it is due.
Still on the subject of mail forms, has anyone here used a service called Whiz-Mail?

One more thing: Can anyone tell me how to "pad" a text-box in SS? In other words, create a bit of space between the edge and the text of a text-box?
The text in by boxes are right on the edge and it looks grotty.
Peace
plaZma

i have used antenna in the past, i found there form creator just plain awkward. They have some neat features that sitespinner could do with but sitespinner alows you to work more productively.
Both software pieces have pro's and cons, its just sitespinner has more pros

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Can anyone tell me how to "pad" a text-box in SS? In other words, create a bit of space between the edge and the text of a text-box?

For only a small amount of text like a caption, I find center justifying the text to be quite effective. There is a button for this in the text editor.

If you use left justified text, try placing a colored rectangle behind the text. Keep the background of the text object set to "no shading". If you set anti-alias and re-render off for the rectangle, you can avoid creating an image file.

Thanks Bruceee, that is a good work-around.
Here's another feature request:
How about a simple notepad that saves with the project file in which we can keep track of changes, a list of to-do's and so forth?
I guess one could just append a page and write whatever on it, and not upload it.
Thanks
Eugene

Try this "Code Object" on your page

<TEXTAREA STYLE="display:none">
Inside here, write anything you like,
using as many lines as you like
</TEXTAREA>

Put CSS positioning off.

The text will appear on your workpage, but not when you preview or publish. As it is included in the published HTML of your page, keep it brief.

Hey, an instant notepad! You're a wizard, Bruceee.
This solves a moster headache for me - keeping track of all the stuff that needs doing in large projects.

If you use a template page that is never published, another possibility is to include your to-do list as a normal text object.

In the Object Editor > Components tab, set the Page Copy Method for the text object to 'Private'. This ensures that when you copy new pages from your template, the to-do text is left behind.

Bruceee, I'm beginning to suspect that you have read and understood the ENTIRE SS manual- how else could you know so many cool work-arounds to simple problems?
I have looked for, and could not find a description of that item in the object properties/editor.

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Originally posted by plaZma:

Hi, how you did this survey...Please help me...I want to learn how to do poll's.

Thanks GM

There are many different options depending on what exactly you want to do here is one.

Plazma can u help me?... I did the form with the radio buttoms and the vote and see polls buttom but I dont know how to put them together or what script to use...Can you help me please..I would like to do something like the example you put up here..Thanks

Ginedy

Ginedy,

plaZma's survey was done entirely from with this forum using the "new" button at the top of the page and selecting the "Poll" option.

Assuming you have used SiteSpinner's form tools to put together your survey, you will need a script on your server (PHP, ASP, or PERL) to accept the survey results and do something with them.

This site provides tutorials on how to put together a survey using PHP. They also have pre-built scripts to handle your survey, depending upon your needs.

And as Roma has pointed out, there are sites that will allow you to build a poll and host it for you.

Larry, the scrpts will go on what file on the server and last, would I be asking too much If you can help me find one..let me know if you can help n I'll tell you what I want...Thanks Ginedy

Can you give me an idea of what you are trying to survey? Number of questions, how you want the results processed, etc. This would give me a starting point of what to search for.