i am wondering if someone could tell me how i could set up
a form to create/add to an online business directory. i
want to be able to have people fill out a form with their
business info and then when they submit it it will publish
it to an existing webpage. i want this existing webpage to
be formatted with the graphic theme of the rest of my
site, not a blank white page.

i'm sure there's multiple ways to do this...wondering how
i would do it with frontpage? and if its not possible, if
anyone has any advice?

Requires a server-side application, most likely custom written using ASP or whatever is supported by
the server that will be hosting the site. If you are hosted on a Windows IIS server, this may be
something that you can do using the FP database components.

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"Tina" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:2afaa01c466ab$c7685200$(E-Mail Removed)...
> i am wondering if someone could tell me how i could set up
> a form to create/add to an online business directory. i
> want to be able to have people fill out a form with their
> business info and then when they submit it it will publish
> it to an existing webpage. i want this existing webpage to
> be formatted with the graphic theme of the rest of my
> site, not a blank white page.
>
> i'm sure there's multiple ways to do this...wondering how
> i would do it with frontpage? and if its not possible, if
> anyone has any advice?

FrontPage has everything you need for this, and it's fairy
simple to do. Take a look at the below tutorial, this
method is easy to modify to suite your needs.

http://www.frontpagewiz.com/FrontPag...03/Dynamic_Web
_Site_Design/Whats_New/

~Bill Schroyer
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http://www.frontpagewiz.com
>-----Original Message-----
>i am wondering if someone could tell me how i could set
up
>a form to create/add to an online business directory. i
>want to be able to have people fill out a form with their
>business info and then when they submit it it will
publish
>it to an existing webpage. i want this existing webpage
to
>be formatted with the graphic theme of the rest of my
>site, not a blank white page.
>
>i'm sure there's multiple ways to do this...wondering how
>i would do it with frontpage? and if its not possible, if
>anyone has any advice?
>.
>

Use the database results wizard.

Create a form with the fields you need your visitors to fill out.....rightclick
the form and in the send to part click "send to database" - it will then ask to
either connect to an existing access database or create a new one, choose 'create
new database'. it will do it's internal processes in connecting the
database....you can see the list of fields that it has, and frontpage includes
extra fields like 'timestamp' and user's IP or something like that.

If you don't want those fields you can add/delete whichever fields you like.
Then you go through the database results wizard and make the sql query to dispaly
whatever results you want, it includes a search form that the user can then
search on if need be.

You might want to take a look at www.frontpagewiz.com first if you're not
familiar with databases on the web, this site has an excellent tutorial.

Anyway, the results wizard generals a 'results area' that is just very basic, but
you can then jazz up with your own site's design as you see fit.

If you're not using a Windows Server with ASP and FP server extensions I suggest
www.ezscripting.co.uk for a simple solution using Perl/Cgi (free). These scripts
are simple to set up, they use a 'template' to display results and you can design
your results pages around the template/results. They have a help forum which the
site owner runs. A very good site for beginners using databases - the
database(s) used are flatfile (ascii text basically - character separated value
(CSV) files).



"Tina" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:2afaa01c466ab$c7685200$(E-Mail Removed)...
> i am wondering if someone could tell me how i could set up
> a form to create/add to an online business directory. i
> want to be able to have people fill out a form with their
> business info and then when they submit it it will publish
> it to an existing webpage. i want this existing webpage to
> be formatted with the graphic theme of the rest of my
> site, not a blank white page.
>
> i'm sure there's multiple ways to do this...wondering how
> i would do it with frontpage? and if its not possible, if
> anyone has any advice?