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Making your own web site can be easy and satisfying

All you need is a good Web Page authoring program, and you're away! We are not giving a whole tutorial on how to use these Authoring Programs, but we can point you in the right direction.

Probably the best web page Authoring programs are Macromedia Dreamweaver and Microsoft Front Page. There are extensive tutorials avaliable on the Internet for download on how to become adept with these programs, as well as books such as the Dreamweaver Bible avaliable for purchase. Otherwise you can always learn to use these programs by trial and error - if you know how to use a word processor program like Word, you should be able to figure things out.

You can also search the Internet for tutorials on how to make web pages. An example is The Novice Web Developer Tutorial.

Happy pagemaking!

Adding a hitcounter to my website

ECA provides a counter facility and some fonts. To place a counter on your page, include the following code:-

<IMG SRC="/scripts/Count.cgi?df=<Counter Name>&dd=<Counter Style>&ft=<Frame Width>" ALT="Counter">

where <Counter Name> is replaced by the name of the counter, say webhints, <Counter Style> is replaced by the style of the counter and <Frame Width> is the frame width. Thus:-

<IMG SRC="/scripts/Count.cgi?df=webhints&dd=B&ft=4" ALT="Counter">

gives the counter:-

Remember to give the counter a unique name. Your username is a good idea, because it is guaranteed to be unique. If you need more than one counter on your site, add a number to the username, ie username1, username2, etc. View some examples.

Designing response forms for your web site using the free formmail facility on the East Coast Access web server

East Coast Access uses the FormMail form processor to convert forms to email messages. To use this form, you need to use your web page designer to create a page that includes a form and provide the following for the form definition:-

<form method="POST" action="/scripts/mail/formmail.plx">

You can create the remainder of the form as usual, except for one special field that must exist. It must be coded as:-

<input type="hidden" name="recipient" value="email address">

Replace email address with the email address of the person who is to receive the data from the form.

In addition, if you provide the following two optional fields, you will also be able to retrieve the email address and name of the person filling in the form:-

<input type="text" name="email" size=50>

<input type="text" name="realname" size=50>

There are numerous other optional fields that can be included to allow special processing such as selecting colours for the confirmation page, selecting a different confirmation page, specifying fields as required, etc. See the Form options page for more details.


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