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The fifth edition of an international best-seller, Creating Cool HTML 4 Web Pages (the second edition of “HTML 4” is even updated for HTML 4.01) lets anyone learn how to use free and simple tools to create attractive and sophisticated Web pages, then how to publish and publicize them.
The book also Includes a CDROM with all the examples in the book and a collection of invaluable tools and utilities. For PC and Mac users.
If you’re ready for a more advanced title, don’t forget that Dynamic HTML Weekend Crash Course is a great sequel.
Sounds like you have the wrong value in your ACTION attribute of your FORM tag. If you have something like ACTION=”my@email.address” then the behavior you indicate is exactly what you’d expect, and you shouldn’t be prompting them for input, just prompting them to ‘click’ on the link and get a blank email message.
Instead, I think you want a back-end CGI script that can turn the form data into an email message, as discussed in the book. Your best first step, though, is to ask your web hosting provider if they have any sort of “mailform” script already installed that you could utilize. If not, they might be able to help you get the CGI program you want installed and running properly anyway.
Good luck!
I really enjoyed your book and used it to set up a web site of my best travel pictures. One problem I have is on the feedback form. When the submit button is clicked, Outlook Express is launched with my address email address selected and the user has to re-type their message. Can you help? Thanks!