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RapidWeaver 5 Beginner's Guide

By : Joe Workman
Book Image

RapidWeaver 5 Beginner's Guide

By: Joe Workman

Overview of this book

<p>RapidWeaver allows users with any level of expertise to build beautiful and professional looking websites. The novice user will love the drag and drop, what you see is what you get interface. The advanced users will love that they can get down and dirty with some code when they need to. <br /> <br /> This book covers all aspects of developing a website with RapidWeaver. Whether you want a family website to display photos from your latest vacation or a small business that is looking to increase your web presence, this book has got you covered. If you have a Mac and want a website, you need this book. <br /> <br /> This book dives into all the components required to build a website with RapidWeaver. The first half of this book builds upon itself and shows you all of the basic building blocks that you will need to develop great websites. It starts off with a basic tour of RapidWeaver and gets you building your first webpage in the first chapter. The book progresses onto how to customize the look and feel of your website with themes and adding simple webpages with text and images all the way to blogs and photo galleries.</p> <p>The second half of the book dives into more advanced topics that can really help you take your websites to the next level. This includes e-commerce, blogs, managing web content outside of RapidWeaver, Search Engine Optimization and even a little programming. By the end of this book, you will have a solid foundation that will allow you to build powerful websites.&nbsp;</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
RapidWeaver 5 Beginner’s Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action - creating a Contact Form page


Now we are going to create a new contact form for our RapidWeaver project.

  1. Add a new Contact Form page to your RapidWeaver project.

  2. Add a new form field with the following attributes: Name: Subscribe?, Type: Check Box.

  3. Add a second new field with the following attributes: Name: Reference:, Type: Popup Menu.

  4. Select both fields in the list and move them below the default e-mail field.

  5. Select the Reference field that we created. At the bottom of the window add a couple of different options: Online Advertisement and Friend Referral.

  6. Preview your web page!

What just happened?

We have now created a very simple contact form for our website. We added a couple of non-default fields in order to gather a little bit more information from our visitors. While this form is good to go visually, it does not yet have the ability to send an e-mail with all of the data yet. Let’s learn how to do that now.

Contact Form setup

Now that we have set up our Contact page with all...