Dynamic Web Template disables my form?

[mylittleyellowduck]

Hi there,
I have a website with a couple of forms however when I aply the dwt to my
form the form will not work? It all looks fine but will not submit the data
across. The form was definitly working before as I tested it on my server. I
am sure it's probably a setting within my dwt, but not sure where to start
looking? Any help appreciated?
Em

 

[Ronx]

A linkj to the faulty page always helps to give solutions to problems.
Without seeing the page I have no idea how applying a DWT will stop a form
from working.

As for the nortbots error:

See http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/tests/nortbots.aspx


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Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression)
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[Ronx]

The forms on pages

http://www.totallytots.org.uk/mailinglist.htm and
http://www.totallytots.org.uk/Bookings.htm

will *never* work in FireFox or Opera. These are in VML text boxes, which
appear as images in FireFox - you cannot type in an image. In fact, every
page looks dreadful in FireFox.

See http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/tests/vml-graphics for reasons why VML
(text boxes, shape art, Wordart) should be avoided on web pages.
--
Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression)
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[mylittleyellowduck]

Oops, sorry! That might help )
http://www.totallytots.org.uk/TSbooktable.htm
on submit it should goto the page http://www.totallytots.org.uk/TSpaytable.htm
which is what the blank form did before I applied the dwt to it?

my html skills aren't really up to much, I'm afraid but if someone can point
me in the right direction...

 

[mylittleyellowduck]

Thanks for the feedback -as I said I am a bit of a newbie to this although
have a technical background so am picking things up quite quick. Should I
recreate these pages without the text boxes? and then reapply the dwt?

 

[mylittleyellowduck]

oh my - what a nightmare - I just downloaded firefox to view my page, back to
the drawing board methinks! So instead of putting things into text boxes I
presume I should us the proper page templates when I design a new page. Where
as I have been willy nilly creating text boxes so I could drag everything
where I fancied!?

Thankyou for pointing this out.
Emma

 

[Ronx]

This is suffering from the same problems as
http://www.totallytots.org.uk/mailinglist.htm
The form is in a VML textbox, which will prevent it from working in any
browser other than Internet Explorer. It looks as if the form pages have
been FTPed to the server. Forms using FrontPage extensions MUST be
published using HTTP.
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Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression)
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[Ronx]

Your pages definitely need a workover. Textboxes should be avoided. Also
avoid Absolute Positioning; this will also lead to tears until you really
know what Absolute Positioning is about - and then you would know not to use
it. If you can drag text around on the page, then you are using Absolute
Positioning.

The easiest way to lay out a page is to use a table. This may not be the
best way, but it is difficult to go wrong with tables.
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Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression)
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[mylittleyellowduck]

I am redoing it as we speak - thank you, I never really considered other
browsers - a bit of a major oversight!! Hopefully that will fix whatever
glitch was messing up the form too.
Yours,
Emma "never use a textbox again" Butt