Help! Importing a Form into my Website

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momon2acres - 12 Sep 2007 21:14 GMT

Hi-
You guys are always so helpful. I hope you can help me today!

I have a site hosted by Yahoo! and designed in their sitebuilder program.
Their forms cannot be used on their SSL pages (stupid I know) so I have to
create a form outside of their sitebuilder and import it in. They can help
me with that but......

I have created the form I need in .pub as a webpage.

1) what format should I save it in?
2)how do I post it to the internet to test?
3)how do I access the html for the page in .pub if I just want to add it to
a sitebuilder webpage as html?
4) I have tried "viewing as a webpage" to get the html from 'source' but
doesn't work

I don't think I'll surprise anyone to say I'm a WYSIWYG kinda gal. I have
no html or programming knowledge but I can learn anything.....!
You help is very appreciated!

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Rob Giordano (Crash) - 13 Sep 2007 00:12 GMT

I doubt you will be able to do this with Publisher since it's not an html
editor and pub's not gonna be able to write the scripting for the form for
whatever Yahoo will let you use.

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DavidF - 13 Sep 2007 02:07 GMT

Publisher forms require FrontPage service extensions in order to work. If
your host supports FPSE then maybe you could use Publisher to produce your
form page. I guess what I envision is producing a single webpage with
Publisher for your form, Publish to the web to create a web page, and then
uploading that web page to a folder on your site, and linking to it from
your other site? I dunno...but perhaps if you read through the following you
will figure it out.

Reference: Publisher web publication forms 101
http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/archive/2006/01/07/80564.aspx

Publisher - Uploading:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/archive/category/1921.aspx

And pay special attention to the HTTP uploading protocol article. You have
to use HTTP or you will break or corrupt the FPSE which are needed for the
forms to work.

Good luck.

DavidF

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> You guys are always so helpful. I hope you can help me today!
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> no html or programming knowledge but I can learn anything.....!
> You help is very appreciated!

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momon2acres - 14 Sep 2007 00:10 GMT

I do have a host that supports FPSE and called them to get all the info and
proceeded with the steps on the website archive for uploading. Once I got to
the point of selecting the ftp file and opening it for the index to go in, I
got the following error "The folder ftp://ftg.mywebsite.com/ isn't
accessible. The folder may be locatied in an unavailable location, protected
with password or the file name contains a / or \."

> Publisher forms require FrontPage service extensions in order to work. If
> your host supports FPSE then maybe you could use Publisher to produce your
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> > no html or programming knowledge but I can learn anything.....!
> > You help is very appreciated!

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DavidF - 14 Sep 2007 00:59 GMT

You should go back and read the articles again as you do not use a FTP
address, you use a http address to your site. Read both the HTTP uploading
article and the troubleshooting article. You might also go to your web host
site and look through the FAQ, support section etc. for specific
instructions on how to upload using HTTP protocol. Look for FrontPage
instructions or FPSE.

Then try again. Good luck...

DavidF

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> proceeded with the steps on the website archive for uploading. Once I got
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>> > no html or programming knowledge but I can learn anything.....!
>> > You help is very appreciated!

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