Re: FrontPage to Dreamweaver specific function how to

Dreamweaver does not do Front Page Extensions.

For the search functionality you could try using asp if you're on IIS or
javascript. The forms are a far simpler story. Just check if your hosting
service are running formmail.pl and then get them to add your domain to
their referrers array.

>From there, you just set your form method to post. It should look something
like this:

<form method="post" action="http://www.yourhost.com/cgi-bin/FormMail.pl">
<input type="hidden" name="recipient" value=yourclient(at)theirdomain.com>
<input type="hidden" name="redirect"
value="http://www.yourdomain.com/thankyou.htm">

Don't fear the changeover to Dreamweaver - you have COMPLETE control over
any code in your pages from html/javascript through to asp/coldfusion. It
labels the code for you where it can identify it and then leaves it alone. I
used to do a lot of coding by hand and it takes me about half the time with
Dreamweaver and the code is just about flawless.

HTH

Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: "DiVita, Judith L. [JLD]" <JLD(at)ElkayMfg.com>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 1:12 AM
Subject: FrontPage to Dreamweaver specific function how to


> I am converting from FrontPage to Dreamweaver and I'm finding some
> disconnects between the two in functionality.  Dreamweaver is far superior
> in most functions, but some things don't seem to be there.
>
> Examples:
> I can't find any search components for running a site search on an IIS 4.0
> server.  (The IIS Resource kit says to use FrontPage components.)
>
> When I pulled in files that used the included components in FrontPage, it
> appeared to me as if it just converted the include to hard coded HTML in
> each of the pages using it, and not a library component.  Is this the way
it
> works and I'll have to go in to every page and recode as a library item?
(I
> don't really know how to do that, but I expect I can figure it out.)
>
> I think I have to use perl to do automated forms that will mail data,
which
> is another FrontPage component.
> ------------
> A short 1/2 day class on FrontPage to Dreamweaver specific functions would
> have helped, I think. Does anyone know of documentation or a tutorial like
> that?  Or can anyone help with the above issues?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Judy DiVita
> JLD(at)ElkayMfg.com
>
>

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