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How to Add Email Forms to Yahoo! Geocities

Adding an email form to your web site hosted on Yahoo! Geocities is very easy. 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 your cannot manually alter the HTML. Therefore I recommend using Yahoo!'s HTML editor,

A demonstration form hosted on Yahoo! Geocities 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 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 that 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 that 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 in order to test it.

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

Common Problems Users Experience:

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

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

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