Creating an e-Mail Submission Form in Dreamweaver

September 11, 2008 by Pablo Palatnik

If you’re in lead generation, creating a form is probably the single most important factor of your website and if you know how to create a simple form so that it can be emailed to you, here it goes.

Dreamweaver Creating a Form

1) create the form.

2) Switch to the Forms tab on the Insert bar, and click on the Form icon (first on the left).

3) Set the form properties.

4) Click on the Form box, and in the properties menu, type the following:
action: mailto:emailaddress
method: GET
Enctype: text/plain

5) Add the form fields.

6) Choose the fields you want from the Form tab on the Insert bar.

7) Be sure to include a submit button. Click the button icon (third from the right), and make sure the action is “Submit form”.

8)Save the file.

9)Upload it to your Web server and test it.