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How to Add Email Forms to Freehostia

Adding an email form to your web site hosted on Freehostia 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 may use Freehostia's built in File Manager. The tutorial for adding an email form using their File Manager is outlined below.

A demonstration form hosted on Freehostia 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 Freehosita.com

a. Login to your Freehostia.com account


3. Open up the File Manager

a. Click the File Manager icon under Site Management

4. Create a New File or Open an Existing File

a. To create a new file, type in your desired File Name , click empty file, and then click the create button.

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

c. A small window will open. Click Open with WYSIWYG editor

d. Design and write what you would like to have on your page. Do not paste any form code into the WYSIWYG editor as it will not work.

e. Click

5. Add the Form HTML to Your File

a. To open an existing file for editting click the Edit File icon next to your file.

c. A small window will open. Click Open with plain text editor

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.

c. Click

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 in order to test it.

A demonstration form hosted on Freehostia can be seen here.

Common Problems Users Experience:

I submit the form and get a form location error.

This is typically caused when you are testing a form that has not yet been published to your live web site. If you are still having this problem once you have uploaded the file to the live web site, please read below.

If you are using myContactForm.com, you need to login there and make sure that you've set the Form Location setting to the proper URL of 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 would appear. Typically this is the full URL of your web form with and without the www subdomain.

e. Click