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1 total messages Started by Dave Verschleiser Tue, 29 Oct 1996 00:00
ANNOUNCE: WebForms 2.5a-Creates mailto forms, CGI forms, and Perl scripts! Reads responses too!
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Author: Dave Verschleiser
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 00:00
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WebForms --  Voted PC Computing Best
        "Q&D Software Development's WebForms helps you build
         impressive Web-based forms" 
-- PC Computing Magazine - August 1996 (p.140)
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WebForms 2.5a released!!  Creates forms of all types for the 
web, along with appropriate scripts if desired.  Includes many 
new features and one or two minor fixes.  If you are already 
familiar with WebForms, download version 2.5a from our web site
at http://www.q-d.com and check out these new features.  If you
are not familiar with WebForms, read on!

New features include for version 2.5a include:

        * Create CGI forms and Perl scripts, as well as non-CGI
          (mailto) forms!  No coding necessary!! 
        * Create submission confirmation pages for CGI forms!   
        * Redirect visitors to an existing URL after submission
          of CGI forms!   
        * Assign default values to text fields!   
        * Much, much more!

Other popular features brought up from previous versions:

        * Direct importing from your mailbox (requires POP3 mail
          server and WINSOCK.DLL)
        * Table support
        * Print response reports and store report definitions
        * View HTML code and browse forms from within the
          program
        * Create scrolling status bar messages using WebForms'
          JavaScript generating capabilities
        * Create submission confirmation message boxes for 
          non-CGI (mailto) forms using WebForms' JavaScript
          generating capabilities
        * All forms responses stored in an MS-Access 2.0 database
          on your local hard drive (MS-Access NOT REQUIRED!!)

Program Description:

        WebForms lets you create your own WWW forms which you 
can link to your home page,  allowing you to accept orders for
your products, conduct surveys, or anything you can think of that 
requires a response from your users!  WebForms consists of two
modules combined into one amazing program.
        The first module, called the WebForms Forms Generator 
enables you to design your form in any way you like.  Using the
WebForms Forms Generator module, you can create text areas along
with many different types of controls including text fields, radio 
buttons, check boxes, and list boxes.  WebForms' easy point and
click interface allows you to create as many controls as you 
like, having them appear in whatever order you like.  Once 
you're finished designing your form, just click the 'Complete' 
button and the WebForms Forms Generator goes to work.  In a 
matter of micro-seconds you have a professional looking WWW form
which you can upload to your network server or Internet Service 
Provider (or wherever you keep your home page).  Beginning with
version 2.5, WebForms allows you to create CGI forms as well as
non-CGI (mailto) forms.  WebForms will even generate the 
appropriate Perl scripts!  You can create as many forms as you
like for whatever purpose you like.  Anyone who stops by your 
home page will be able to fill out the form and click the 'Submit'
button, resulting in an encoded e-mail message sent to whatever 
e-mail address you specified when creating the form!
        Which brings us to...
        The second module, called the WebForms Response Reader,
reads the responses received from any WebForms Form.  If you are
using a standard POP3 mail server, WebForms will dial directly 
into your mailbox and download all of your forms responses, 
automatically separating them from any other e-mail messages you
may have, while importing them directly into the WebForms Response
Database.  (The WebForms Response Database is an MS-Access 2.0 
database.  MS-Access is NOT REQUIRED to use this feature!)  The
WebForms Response Reader can even tell which WebForms Form each
message is responding to, and creates a response table for each
form, depositing each response in its respective table!  If you
are not using a POP3 mail server, all you need to do is save each 
message to your hard disk as a plain ASCII text file.  There is
no need to 'clean' the text file by removing any addressing 
information, since the WebForms Response Reader is intelligent 
enough to sift through the text of each message and pick out 
what it needs.  Messages are then automatically imported into 
the WebForms Response Database.  This powerful database feature
allows you to simply click on the name of the  form for which 
you would like to read responses, and presents these responses 
in a clear, concise, scrollable table view.  You can even select
whether to view New messages, Old messages, or All messages.  
Importing and reading responses is done the same way whether 
you've chosen CGI or non-CGI (mailto) forms.  This allows you to
import all of your responses from all of your forms all at one 
time!
        WebForms was the first product of its kind to become 
publicly available.  Most programs of this type are written by 
WWW home-page publishing companies for their own use.  They then 
charge YOU for their services, forcing you to pay more each time
you want to make the littlest changes to your form.  With WebForms,
YOU are finally in control.
        Download your copy now from our web site at 
http://www.q-d.com.
-- 

Thanks,
Dave Verschleiser
Q&D Software Development - http://www.q-d.com
Creators of WebForms, WebMania, and Bookmark Magician

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