How to Create a Reservation Email Form

A reservation form is essential for any type of online business, which takes reservations because it is far simpler for the potential clients to conduct business with the company. Online consumers want to handle everything online and this reservation email form will help them make dinner, hotel, or other type of reservations. Creating a reservation email form is as easy for the website designer to create. These forms are versatile and can be modified in many ways.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Computer
• A web page editor
• Web site
• Pen and Paper
• Basic html knowledge

1. Write down on the paper the type of information you wish to have appear in the reservation email form. Obvious entries will be, name, telephone number, address, and of course email addresses. Specialized businesses may have other entries such as non-smoking rooms for a hotel or handicap accessible for a restaurant.

2. Open the web page editor and begin a new html page. Within the body tags type < form action="mailto:[e-mail]" method="post" > hit the enter key and type < /form > this emails the reservation email form somewhere. It is best to put the business email of your reservation person here. Make sure to leave no spaces in between the less than sign and the letter following it or leave a space between the letter that comes before the greater than symbols in this line of code, an explanation follows in the warnings section. Everything within this form will be typed before the < /form >.

3. Type the following codes for the name of the client, address, and of course an email address. < input type="text" name="complete name" size="40" maxlength="256" value="complete name" / >< input type="text" name="address" size="40" maxlength="256" value="Complete Address" / > < br >< br > These lines of codes customizable as far as the words that follow the value and name within the reservation email form. These lines of codes go between lines of code within the document. They are often used for names, addresses, or telephone numbers.

4. Type in the following lines of code for multiple select boxes, a visitor can select multiple choices with your reservation email form. This has a variety of uses. Select one and hold down the ctrl key for multiple selections < select name="extras" size="3" multiple="multiple" >< option value="crib" > crib< /option >< option value="roll away" > roll away< /option >< option value="play pen" > play pen< /option >< /select >

5. Add the reset or submit buttons to the reservation email form with the following code. < br >< br > < input type="reset" value="Reset" / > < input type="submit" value="Send" / > You can change the wording in the value section of this part of the form. Upload this reservation email form to the web site and begin taking online reservations.

Tips & Warnings

• Please note the only words between the brackets that you can change follow the word value.
• You can copy the lines of code to your web editor and alter them, to assure you have a working code or simply bookmark this page for future reference.
• Make sure to leave no spaces in between the less than sign and the letter following it or leave a space between the letter that comes before the greater than symbols in this line of code. If you leave spaces within code, the reservation email form will not work properly.