Chapter 7: Building Web Forms
In This Chapter
Determining which data to request from visitors
Encrypting collected form data
Building validating web forms
Using Dreamweaver’s Spry Form fields
Testing and publishing web forms
Using online web form services
If you’ve ever filled out an online survey, signed up for a website’s newsletter, or purchased something on the Internet, you’ve probably used a form. Forms can be short or long, and they come in many shapes and sizes, but they all use similar HTML tags combined with JavaScript or some other programming language to validate and collect data. Forms allow sites to collect information from visitors for a variety of different reasons, including to sign up for services, request information, join a mailing list, purchase products, register ...