Re: Web-based Surveys

Only be sure you don't email form results containing sensitive
data, such as people's names, email addresses, physical addresses,
credit card information or other financial- or privacy-related
information that would be better stored in a disk file or database
for administrative retrieval.  Unless, of course, the service
offers encryption...?

D

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted Temer" <temer(at)c-zone.net>

Alica:

There is more to setting up a form and collecting the data than
simple HTML.

However--as I often exclaim with silly and appropriate blank
looks--Why
re-invent the wheel??

As this appears to be a short lived, one time event, I would
suggest you
avail yourself of the services of the good people at:

http://freedback.com/

Here, you create your information gathering form with lots of
options. They
give you the code to insert into your web page. The visitor fills
out the
form and the info is then sent to the e-mail address of your
choice.

Example: I have a simple form running at the bottom of:
http://www.newsredding.com/about.stm

Then--just transfer the data into Access or whatever database you
like.
Unless you are going to get "hundreds" of replies, I would think a
few
minutes spent copy and pasting from the e-mail replies into Access
would
give you a workable database for later analysis.

Of course, if you just HAVE to create your own, I would start
looking over
either JavaScript, ASP or CGI scripts that are available. The
learning curve
is a bit steep on some of them but some folks--not me of
course--seem to
catch on rather quickly.

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