This background is for site administrators.Sample Contact Form

Overview: The system optionally can include one or more contact form pages.  This system requires the administrator to specify a list of Persons and their email addresses which can be selected by the visitor to send an email to an individual.  At no time are the actual email addresses exposed on the web site so hostile programs cannot harvest email addresses as spam targets.   This page describes how to input and edit the data.

  • Information about the contacts which are to appear on the form is entered either via the Contacts button one at a time or by submitting a specially formatted spreadsheet (i.e, a csv formatted text file) which can be uploaded in bulk. 
    • The spreadsheet columns are: ID, Organization Name, Function, Last Name, First Name, Real Email address
    • The ID field needs to contain a zero as the real value will be provided by the system
    • Organization name is the major division (e.g, a school's name)
    • The function the person performs (e.g., Staff, Clergy)
    • If you want the drop down to be alphabetic by last name, put only the Last name in the Last Name field,  If the list is short and you want it alphabetized by first name and then last name, but both names in this field and leave the next one blank.
    • If the previous field only contains the last name then the First Name goes here.
    • The final field must contain the complete email address of the sender. 
  • The page designer will control the labels and the order of the fields.
  • Added information can be requested.

Required Styles:

id="function_name" Used in DIV tags surrounding the Fields names (e.g, Function in the example) used to provide image (FUNCTION in this example)
id="org_name" used in DIV tags surrounding the Organization (School Name in the example) select list.
id="contactOrgdiv" used in DIV tags surrounding the Select Position drop down.
id="name_select" used in DIV tags which surrounding the list of names in select list, used to provide image (EMAIL TO in this example)
id="contactdiv" used in DIV tags which surrounds the actual select list, used by Ajax function to replace select list with the actual list.
id="content_bit" used in DIV tags which surrounds the content area, used to supply image to title for the area (MESSAGE: in this example)
id="subject" used in DIV tags which surrounds the Subject input box, used to supply image to title for the area (SUBJECT: in this example)
id="email" used in DIV tags which surrounds the Visitor's email address input box, used to supply the title for the area (EMAIL FROM: in this example)
id="e_name" used in DIV tags which surrounds the Visitor's name input box, used to supply the title for the area (YOUR NAME: in this example)
id="captcha" used in DIV tags which surrounds the table which holds the generated Captcha image and response box
id="submitline" used in the DIV tags which surround the Submit Button.

Note the id="captcha" style is also used in all the forms.