Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft® Office FrontPage® 2003

Testing Forms

Although you can do some basic functional testing of form pages in Page Preview view, to do a full end-to-end test including the form processing, you have to publish the site to the Web server. This action causes FrontPage to add any client-side form validation and enables the Web components involved in processing the forms to be utilized for testing.

The Absolute Minimum Other than simple mailto links, forms are the primary means for getting user responses and requests back to you. FrontPage has a full range of tools for creating forms as well as form-processing results on the Web server. Use the form page templates and Form Page Wizard to create ready-made form pages. These can produce forms for many if not most of the typical ...