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Understanding how forms work

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Understanding how forms work

In all my years of teaching Web Design, some of the most frequently ask questions that new designers ask centers around the building of and the functionality of Online Forms. In this chapter we'll 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 Processing Form Data, see any of the Dreamweaver Dynamic Development Titles in the lyda .com Online Training Library. However, before we begin building your Forms, it's important that 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 data from your user and then send it to another page to be processed. This page is typically referred to, logically enough, as the Processing Page. This page often shows a message that gives the user feedback…

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