Frontpage forms nightmare

by "Nick Doylend" <ndoylend(at)hashishin.net>

 Date:  Tue, 14 Nov 2000 18:50:32 -0000
 To:  <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
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Hi, I've been working on a web based questionnaire which is required to save
the results in a file, preferably something easily imported into Excel for
analysis.  I'm supposed to use my university department's server which I
have been told is a Frontpage server.  The implication seems to be that I
have to use Frontpage to produce the HTML which will use a Frontpage webbot
to save the results in a comma delimited text file.  The problem is that
I've already developed the questionnaire by hand, it looks great and
validates as HTML 4.01 (thanks to you guys!).  The problem starts when I
load it into Frontpage.  All the table formatting goes wack, the radio
buttons disappear, etc. etc., in short all my hard work gets trashed (I take
this personally and very badly!)  Can I use the webbot pseudo-tags directly
in my HTML without having to let, ugh, Frontpage destroy my beautiful HTML?
Is there any other way of getting a nice .csv file output to the server.
I'd like to use a formmail CGI or some ASP but I'm not sure how to get them
on the server, or even if I'm allowed to use such things on our server.  I
have my own web space, but the domain name hashishin.net might not go down
too well with my professor ("is that like to do with drugs or something?!").
Presumably it has an IP address which I could refer to it as instead?  Then
I've got the problem of configuring CGI or ASP to deal with my forms.

Sorry for such a rambling request, but has anyone got any suggestions?

Cheers, Nick

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