Form

Forms let you collect information from site visitors.  There are two basic parts of a form: the structure or shell, that consists of field labels, and buttons that the visitor sees on a page and hopefully fills out, and the processing script that takes that information and converts it into a format that you can read or tally. 

Constructing a form's shell is quite straightforward. You can create text boxes, radio buttons, check boxes, drop-down menus, larger text areas and even clickable images. You will give each element a name that will serve as a label to identify the data once it is processed.

Processing the data from a form is a bit more complicated.  The principal tool, the CGI script, is typically written in Perl or other programming language. If all this seems a bit daunting, or your ISP doesn't allow you to run CGI scripts, you might decide to use a public form host.

To use a form, a visitor simply types information in the form's fields, clicks a button that submits the information to the web site server, and then the server collects and processes the information according to the instructions of the form's handler.

FrontPage doesn't require you to create computer programming scripts in order to use forms or handle the form data.   FrontPage creates the scripts that handle the forms automatically.