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Lazlo

Lazlo

Good people drink good beer. ~ HST
I'm working on a website for my buddies band and everything seems to really be coming together well considering I've never tried to make a website before. The one thing I'm stuck on though is making the contact form work properly. I'm hoping someone on the boards could help me figure it out. It's driving me crazy.

www.thetopheavies.com
 
Lazlo said:
I'm working on a website for my buddies band and everything seems to really be coming together well considering I've never tried to make a website before. The one thing I'm stuck on though is making the contact form work properly. I'm hoping someone on the boards could help me figure it out. It's driving me crazy.

www.thetopheavies.com
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Good-looking site, Lazlo. I like the minimalist design. What programs did you use to create it?
 
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OSUsushichic said:
Good-looking site, Lazlo. I like the minimalist design. What programs did you use to create it?
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Agreed...really nice, simple site. Very eye-catching, yet easy on the eyes (if that makes sense). Looking at the source code, I'm guessing he just straight coded it (no FrontPage, etc.). He does have to old back on the indentation, though... :biggrin:

I whipped up this site for my brother a few years back...
 
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OSUsushichic said:
Good work, Mili.

Geesh, the last site I designed was about 6 years ago (using HTML 4.0). I can't keep up with the technology! I'm just now starting to learn CSS and XHTML.
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Thanks. CSS is crucial to making a site look nice, but if I can learn, you can definitely learn it...
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
Thanks. CSS is crucial to making a site look nice, but if I can learn, you can definitely learn it...
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CSS is a lot of fun, from what little I've done with it. One thing I'd like to do is to buy a domain name and move our blog from Blogger so that I can play with it. So many things to learn, so little time!
 
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Lazlo said:
I'm working on a website for my buddies band and everything seems to really be coming together well considering I've never tried to make a website before. The one thing I'm stuck on though is making the contact form work properly. I'm hoping someone on the boards could help me figure it out. It's driving me crazy.

www.thetopheavies.com
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Look into the perl forums. They are a very helpful bunch of folk.

Also read the headers to the files that use contact.pl - it might be a simple syntax error, saving a a file or sending a file with wrong line endings (carriage returns vs line-feeds for example) can wreak havoc. Perl is always interpreted from a Unix like viewpoint. It might be as simple as how you load up the file to the server for instance.

(Or maybe you are not the keeper of the keys, and it is your server that is running NT and you need one or other of the Unices in play. Anyway for more specifics look into those Perl Forums).

Here are the Perl forums

Tek-Tips


And the holy grail of all Perl realted infomation Perl.Org
 
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A. Love the design of the site. Can't describe why well, just see what Mili said.

B. Damn, I haven't used Perl forever. My dad seems to love it for web design though. You want his help? :biggrin:
 
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I used actionscript and a php script for mine. Usually cant stand using php because of it being full of holes, but it was so much easier to get the form working. I can give you the code from my php script if you want, and you can just point your form to it, as long as your server supports php.
 
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Thanks for the comments on the site everyone. I actually completely cheated and had the guys buy a template from templatemonster for $60 and then have hacked away at it with frontpage and photoshop. While I'm starting to figure things out slowly, I am completely over my head with these perl and PHP scripts. I've just been scouring the net for free ones and then trying to match everything up with the contact form I already have. BMax, if you don't care I wouldn't mind trying to use your script. Thanks again to everyone for the feedback.
 
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Lazlo;599928; said:
Thanks for the comments on the site everyone. I actually completely cheated and had the guys buy a template from templatemonster for $60 and then have hacked away at it with frontpage and photoshop. While I'm starting to figure things out slowly, I am completely over my head with these perl and PHP scripts. I've just been scouring the net for free ones and then trying to match everything up with the contact form I already have. BMax, if you don't care I wouldn't mind trying to use your script. Thanks again to everyone for the feedback.
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Next time go to yahoo and take a look around, perl is easy to figure out by just looking at the script.. heres a cool and very simple perl guy i built for my pops company:
http://www.firstchoicecolumbus.com/cgi-bin/featuredhomes.pl
just pulls our listings froma database and using if else loops puts them inside of tables.. used two seprate counters to keep everything in pairs of 3's.. there are some contact forms on there that are simple but arn't mine, those are the big guys. The new page design actually launched yestrday so its a newer look that i dig, took a while to get everything situated and there are still problems i'm working out

edit: this one is one of all time fav's.. i dig the white borders around the images, really makes them jump:
http://www.agentincentive.com

still a work in progress but its coming along..
 
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<?

$to = "[email protected]";
$msg = "$name\n\n";
$msg .= "$message\n\n";
mail($to, $subject, $msg, "From: OVC Solutions\nReply-To: $email\n");
?>
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That is my code in the php script. Of course the $name and $message tags would vary depending on what you named your text fields, etc......... Let me know if you need any help. So basically in the html, you just point it to the php script, (like I named mine form.php), and it should take care of everything for you.
 
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