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How forms work

How forms work

In all my years of teaching web design, some of the most frequently asked questions that new designers ask center around the building of and the functionality of online forms. In this chapter we will examine using Dreamweaver to help us build and style clean and accessible forms. Unfortunately, making the forms functional is a bit outside the scope of this course. For more information on the processing form data, see David Gassner's Dreamweaver Dynamic Development title in the lynda.com Online Training Library. However, before we begin building our form, it's important that conceptually you understand how forms work and how websites generally process form data. One of the most popular misconceptions about forms is that the form itself does any work at all. For the most part, forms merely collect the data from your user and send it to another page or script to be processed. This page is typically referred to, logically enough, as the processing page. This page often shows a message…

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