Forms - Web Designer 6

[tomilwaukee]

Does Web Designer 6 allow creating form (First Name, Last Nme, Street address, City, State and Zip. If yes, then, do you have to be programmer to do this?

Thank you.

[steve.ledger]

Welcome to the forums Tom,

I have renamed your thread title to be more specific - this helps in thread searching later.

WD6 includes many widgets in the Desgner Gallery including drag'n'drop forms.
Please see the Xara page "What's New' here:

► http://xara.com/uk/products/webdesigner/whatsnew

These forms are simple to add and do not require the knowledge of any html.

[BobfromCA]

Can you edit the Form Widgets? I was experimenting and couldn't figure out how to edit. On Contact Form (v2 I believe) there is a drop down for topic... is there a way to change these defaults? Is there a way to add a field - i.e. Phone? or are we stuck with defaults?

Also, is there a way to remove the Google button and Gadets Powered by Google at the bottom?

[steve.ledger]

No.. These are not Xara controlled form widgets.
They are only short cut methods to help WD users embed externally available free forms into their pages.

[ChrisBro]

If to customis the forms yourself then have a look at the jotform widget I believe this is capable of such things.

I have alwys used coffee cup form creator highly customisable but costs a few quid

Hope that helps

Chris

[BobfromCA]

Thanks... I've used Coffee Cup. I have a form on one site done in WD5 - problem is in IE, the form doesn't show up unless I delete some of the IE specific HTML code and reup the page. Also on that page, the pop-up menu stays open if rolled over. (see here). I've been planning to change it with a PHP form.

WD6 has addressed a lot of issues - especially like the upload only changed pages... I plan on converting the mentioned above site to WD6 - see if that helps with the Contact Us form.

Thanks for quick reply.

[ChrisBro]

mmmmm very strange I use coffee cup forms for nearly all my client sites designed in WD or XXP5 no problems at all in any browser, in fact I have found coffee cup to be one of the most relaible ones for this kind of cross browser issue. Wierd.

PHP may well be a good way forward for you then in that case.

Chris