Kimbro's Study - Website Tutorial
For absolute beginners - step by step.
Website Tutorial - Inserting Forms.
Inserting forms, insert sign up to newsletter forms, on website pages. Create forms of payment accept credit cards on your site.By far the most common form you will find on websites are forms asking people to input their name and e-mail address to subscribe to a newsletter.
So we will cover that first. Below is a typical subscription form:
If you want to subscribe to my bi-monthly newsletter that will send you updates for this tutorial and the Kimbro's Study you can do so from here.
The above subscription form
was created automatically by my autoresponder and copied into my
source code as per the adding source code to your webpages.
The form works in conjunction with an autoresponder. If you have an
autoresponder it will generate the code you need to insert to your
webpages.
You can create your own
forms for any application you choose within Komposer.
If you know how to set the right parameters.
Place your curser within the place you want your form to appear on your page.
Click on the "Form" icon or:
Click on the "Insert" tab at the top of the page.
Select "Form" from the drop down menu, then " Define Form" from the extension of the drop down menu. Fill in the parameters you want for your form in the pop up "Form Properties" box and click "OK"
A faint blue dotted line describing a rectangle will appear on your page.
Click within the rectangle and select "Insert" then Form then "Form field"
Select all the paramerters you want for your form all the way through the list.
Below is an example of a simple form created in Komposer set to search this page.
If you place a search term into the text field and hit enter it should take you to the top of this page.
However there are many standard forms available online where you just have to embed the HTML code to your source code. Just do a search in Google for "Free Contact Form" or "Free [whatever form you are looking for]"
If you know how to set the right parameters.
Place your curser within the place you want your form to appear on your page.
Click on the "Form" icon or:
Click on the "Insert" tab at the top of the page.
Select "Form" from the drop down menu, then " Define Form" from the extension of the drop down menu. Fill in the parameters you want for your form in the pop up "Form Properties" box and click "OK"
A faint blue dotted line describing a rectangle will appear on your page.
Click within the rectangle and select "Insert" then Form then "Form field"
Select all the paramerters you want for your form all the way through the list.
Below is an example of a simple form created in Komposer set to search this page.
If you place a search term into the text field and hit enter it should take you to the top of this page.
However there are many standard forms available online where you just have to embed the HTML code to your source code. Just do a search in Google for "Free Contact Form" or "Free [whatever form you are looking for]"
Payment Forms for your Website.
PayPal's website integration forms makes it a snap to accept credit card payments for products you sell from your site without having to set up merchant accounts.You will need to register a verified business account with PayPal. It is free to register but be aware that their security process is a stringent one [that's a good thing] and getting the account activated can take some time.
If you have a personal PayPal account apply directly through your account for a verified business account.
If you do not have a PayPal account you can set up a verified business account by clicking on the banner below.
We
use and highly recommend PayPal 
Once you have a PayPal account you can set up different forms from
within your account and PayPal will give you the code you need to
insert into your pages source code. You can set up payment buttons with
option forms for automated Tax and shipping/postage calculations. You
can set up recurring payment subscription forms and buttons. PayPal
also offers quick checkout, shopping carts which are free and also
makes it easy to integrate with other third party shopping carts.If you have a lot of products to sell from your site you may consider setting up an online shop. I can recommend Zen Cart. It is free, is easy to install, very user friendly and integrates with PayPal.
Go to next step adding autoresponders.