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Yahoo! Geocities Contact Form Creation

Adding an email form to your Yahoo! Geocities website is a powerful way to stay in touch and exchange information with your site visitors. You have the option of adding the form with an external HTML editor and then uploading the file via FTP, using Yahoo!'s PageBuilder, or using Yahoo!'s HTML editor. I am not a fan of using Yahoo! PageBuilder because you cannot manually manipulate the HTML. Therefore I recommend using Yahoo!'s HTML editor,

A sample form hosted on Yahoo! Geocities can be seen here.

1. Create Your Form HTML

Get started by generating your form HTML code using a free service like myContactForm.com. We've written a tutorial for doing this here.

2. Open a Web Browser and Go to geocities.yahoo.com

a. Login to your Yahoo! Geocities account.


3. Add the Form HTML to a New File

Note: If you would like to insert the form HTML into an existing file, skip ahead to Step 4.

a. Click the Create & Update tab under the Geocities Control Panel

b. Click HTML Editor under Other Tools for Creating and Editing Web Sites

c. Move the cursor to the spot in the content box where you would like to insert your email form.

d. Paste the form HTML into the HTML Editor 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.

e. Type in your Filename: and click the Save button.

4. Add the Form HTML to an Existing File

Note: If you added your form HTML in Step 3, you may skip Step 4.

a. Click the Create & Update tab under the Geocities Control Panel

b. Click File Manager under File Management Tools

c. Move the cursor to the spot in the content box where you would like to insert your email form.

d. Paste the form HTML into the HTML Editor 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.

e. Click the Save button.

5. 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 to test it.

A demonstration form hosted on Yahoo! Geocities can be seen here.

Common Problems Encountered by Users:

The web page is showing a bunch of jumbled HTML instead of a form.

When this occurs, it is a result of the form HTML being pasted into the Design View as text instead of pasting the code into the Code View of your site.

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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