Today I have been working on getting my pages uploaded and doing some basic testing to check that all the links work and my thank you page comes up when I use the contact me form that I have put in. I used what is essence (at least I think it is) a microformat for Email forms. It has helped me add an anti-spam filter by adding a verification step to any emails that are sent through. This helps to stop spamming services from using these as the verfication code changes and needs to be input again each time you send an email. The place I found the most help with this was at: http://www.emailmeform.com/?page=cphome where like the hresume microformat I used it allows you to input the information that you want and then generates the code so that you can copy and paste into your own web page. I am also using their emailing facility to push the messages onto my inbox where I can pick them up. I have done quite a few tests to make sure that this all is working and had to backtrack a bit because I wanted to create my own Thank you page. This meant redoing the Contact Me form and adding the link after I had created my own page. I did this so that the whole website (apart from the online resume) has the same overall look and feel. I think this is important as it demonstrates the look and feel that I am trying to achieve. For anyone looking for a Contact Me form with verification. I would recommend using this as it also validates! I do need to add the additional page into my site map and system plan as it was not something I considered before I walked through adding the Contact Me page.
I am still having quite a bit of trouble with my photo gallery and am going to need to seek some help with this. The JavaScript is just not switching the images out at all. I have put all the images into an 'image' folder and this is something that I have had issues with before. I will have to try again tomorrow to see what I can do about.
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Cool idea for the form, Lisa. I have created my own form and am working on the php to handle it, but an anti-spam filter is a great idea - sounds like you've found a useful tool. I too realised I need to make a thank you page! I have actually made a couple of additonal pages that weren't part of my original system plan, but that's ok, I was expecting the idea to evolve a little bit.
ReplyDeleteNot sure what code you're using for you image gallery, but I have adapted this http://www.alistapart.com/articles/imagegallery/
and have used thumbnails instead of text links. One problem I am yet to resolve is that this uses the old method of including "onclick" stuff in the html and I need to remove all the javascript to an external file.