How to Create Custom Contact Forms in Yahoo Sitebuilder

Create Custom Contact Forms in Yahoo Sitebuilder

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Building a custom website for your business or services is essential to your success in today’s demanding business world. But many people can not afford to pay web designers high fees for this service. And so, many people end up using programs like Yahoo’s Sitebuilder to build their sites on their own. Yahoo’s Sitebuilder allows anybody to build their own website without having to know how to create or program code. You can add features like custom contract forms, tables, pictures, navigation bars and much more.

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Instructions

Difficulty: Challenging

Things You’ll Need:

Yahoo Sitebuilder
Yahoo web hosting account
Domain to publish website to
Computer

How to Create Custom Contact Forms in Yahoo Sitebuilder

Step1

Open the application. You will need to left-click on the Yahoo Sitebuilder application icon in order to load up the application.

Step2

Load the site and page you wish to add custom contact forms to. In order to load the website and pages that you wish to add the custom contact form to you will need to left-click on the “File” tab on the command bar; a submenu will open. Scroll to “Open Site” and open the desired website and pages.

Step3

Create a custom contact form and set the properties. Once you have the page/s that you want to add the contact form to open, scroll to the “Insert” tab on the command bar; a submenu will open. Scroll to “Forms and Forms Elements”; a submenu will open. Scroll to “Contact us Form” and left-click. This will insert a generic contact form onto the page. You can add or remove fields as wanted simply by left-clicking on “Text Field” under “Forms and Forms Elements.” To change the name and function of fields in the form, right-click on the field or form; a submenu will open. Scroll to “Properties” and left-click; fill out the desired functions, change the text name of the field and click “Okay” to apply any changes. To set the functions of the form, where it emails the contact information submitted to and so on, simply right-click on the form box itself; a forms properties box will open. Select the “Forms Settings” tab, and select the desired options.

Step4

Publish and test the form to assure it is working properly. To publish the website you will need a web hosting account through Yahoo. Left-click on the “Publish” button on the command bar and select the desired domain that you wish to publish the files to.

Tips & Warnings

Always check the live website by entering in the URL to your web browser, make sure to test the contact form by submitting a form. Then check your email to make sure it processed the form properly.
Make sure that you set the properties of the contact form so that it emails any contact submissions to the appropriate email inbox.