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How to Add Email Forms to AWARDSPACE.COM
Adding an email form to your website hosted on AWARDSPACE.COM is very easy. You have the option of adding the form with an external HTML editor and then uploading the file via FTP or you using AWARDSPACE.COM's built-in File Manager. The tutorial for adding an email form using their File Manager is outlined below.
A demonstration form hosted on AWARDSPACE.COM can be seen here.
1. Create Your Form HTML
The first step in integrating an email form into your website is to build the actual HTML code for the form. The easiest and quickest way to create the form code is to use myContactForm.com.
myContactForm.com features a free online wizard that steps you through the entire form building process. myContactForm.com has just about any feature you could ask for including auto-responders, CAPTCHA, file attachements, CSS styling, data exports (Excel, CSV, Text, HTML, etc.), pre-made templates, and much more.
Click Here to read a tutorial on creating the form HTML using myContactForm.com.
2. Open a Web Browser and go to AWARDSPACE.COM
a. Login to your AWARDSPACE.COM account.


3. Open up the File Manager
a. Click the Website Manager button.

b. Click the File Manager icon.

4. Create a New File or Open an Existing File
a. To create a new file, scroll down to Create File / Folder area. Type in your desired File Name and click Create File.

b. To open an existing file, click the Edit File icon
next to your file.

5. Add the Form HTML to Your File
a. Move the cursor to the location within the HTML that you would like to insert your email form.

b. Paste the form HTML into the Window (Edit > Paste, or CTRL+V, or Right Click and Select Paste). If you do not have your form code created and copied, please read this tutorial to learn how to do so.

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6. Test Your Form
Open a web browser and go to the web page containing your form. Fill out the form and press the submit button test it.
A demonstration form hosted on AWARDSPACE.COM can be seen here.
Common Problems Encountered by Users:
I submit the form and get a form location error.
This typically occurs when you are testing a form that has not yet been published to your live website. If you are still having this problem once you have uploaded the file to the live website, please read below.
If you are using myContactForm.com, you will need to login and make sure that you've set the Form Location setting to the proper URL for your form.
a. Login to myContactForm.com

b. Click the Edit Button

c. Click the Basic Form Information Button

d. Enter all variations of the URL where the form will appear. Typically this is the full URL of your web form with and without the www subdomain. You can also use wildcards (*) in this setting. For examples using http://www.mydomain.com/* would allow the form to be placed on any page uploaded to mydomain.com.

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