I wrote:
>> software product. I wrote the ISP's webmaster, who told me they don't have
>> a standard CGI for forms. Since every web host I've ever used has had a
>> standard form CGI, I don't know what to do.
Then Peter wrote:
>Any GOOD host will have such a form.
What can I say? I didn't choose the host.
>Brainstorming about what all the possibilities might be. Just brainstorm
>ideas
>about what could be done. Do this with the client. Then begin to decide
>exactly what it is that the customer wants; ask the customer. Then create the
>flow chart and get the customer to sign off on it. Then give that to a
>programmer.
Fortunately the customer has already sent me a detailed list of what they
want on the form. Putting together the HTML side of it is no problem, I've
done that lot's of times. But in the past, I've always worked with
sysadmins who simply emailed me a snippet of html to paste at the top of
the form. No such luck with this web host though, which happens to be the
largest in the county. God only knows why. (Well, actually, I do know why:
they were heavily funded by a huge printing company here, which wanted to
make sure it was positioned to profit from changing paradigms in
communications.)
What I didn't know how to do was get the back side of the form--the
cgi--working. But never fear, several WC angels stepped forward to rescue
me. Hugs to Brent, Gerry, Brett, and to anyone else I may be overlooking at
this late hour.
Suz
Suzanne Stephens, Stephens Design; Ashland, Oregon
541-552-1192 http://www.KickassDesign.com/
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