If you are serious about making money from your blog or website you’ll need some kind of form on your web presence. For those who have experience in web technologies and are more adept in handling HTML, CSS and Scripts the term ‘Form’ might sound pretty familiar, but it will be pertinent here to introduce it to those who are finding the term strange. What are Web Forms? Forms are collections of web elements that can have many purposes like requesting user feedback, adding users to subscriber or mailing lists, keeping touch with users via contact forms or complex forms which allow for ordering of products, asking for user’s payment, shipping and registration information etc. The most common usage of forms that you might encounter across the web is the opt-in form which is used to build e-mailing lists by bloggers who are into making money online. Depending on the complexity the forms used on a site can be one step or complex enough to be multistep with each step building on the previous one to complete the desired data collection process. Forms can collect data, store it to a text file or to a database and depending on user choices it can also retrieve data from a file or a database located on the same or a remote server. All this is done by a script which does all the data collection, storage, retrieval and data processing. Elements of a Web Form: Text Field: A Text field provides a…
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