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I'm a novice when it comes to building websites. Every site I've created I've used a simple mailto: solution for people to contact me. My boss is after me to create a site that uses forms. Some details: I'm using QXP version 8 on an XP Pro system. My site is hosted on Godaddy.com. I intend to have three text fields, one four-button radio section, and a comments field all followed by a "submit" button. I'm gathering that I need to create the scripts that talk to the hosting server in a separate document and load them to the main directory of my site. I just don't really know where to put the scripts and how to "activate" them. So, for my questions: 1. What kind of document do I need to create, do I create a document with a .asp extension and include my scripts in there? Is there a special document extension that I need to use since I built the site in quark? 2. Do I then reference this file that I create in the "Action:" section of the Modify Form tab? 3. Has anyone successfully built a form in Quark to be used with godaddy before and have good pointers on where I put the code and how to do it? Thanks for your help. Sorry if I'm missing something really obvious.

 I have never created a site with the Godaddy webform, but based on their How-to it looks pretty straightforward. Here is the page where they give the relevant information: http://help.godaddy.com/article/512#webformmailer

1) The page including the email form, that you will create in Quark, will be have a "html" ending, something like "contact.html". You don't have to create an .asp file -- you only need to refer to "_gdForm/webformmailer.asp" in the form field you will create.

2) Exactly, you reference your form to _gdForm/webformmailer.asp in the "action" section. 

3) If you haven't done yet, go to http://8.quark.com/quarked.html and download the WebLayout tutorial, which includes a chapter about webforms, very similar to what you want to do. Once you understand how this works, you will be able to add all the fields and buttons. Also add the hidden fields that are indicated on the Godaddy help page (create a text input box, and change the Type to Hidden Field). Notably the field name="redirect" value="thankyou.html" is important, since it defines to which page the user will be redirected after submitting the message.

4) When you export the contact.html file, open it with a text editor (on the Mac TextWrangler will do a good job) and verify if the section included between <form action=" ... and </form> is similar to the one shown on the Godaddy help page, and features the hidden tags.

5) Now you can upload the contact.html file to your web space, and see if it works. Make sure that you have specified a recipient email in you Godaddy control panel.

I will give your suggestions a try tomorrow and let you know how they go. Thanks for your help.

Thank you for your tips. What ended up working was opening the contact.html file in notepad and reviewing the form code it was producing. I tweaked the code to line up with the code from godaddy's help page and it worked! Even godaddy support couldn't steer me in the right direction. Your help is truly appreciated.