2 Quick Quesitions - Email & Website

[AFK_Matrix]

Hi,

First question is to do with emails. My Dad wants to have a reply form at the bottom of his email where recpitiants can fill in there name, address etc. Then when they have filled this information out they just click a button and it sends it back to my dad is this possible?

And the second question is about my Dad's website. He wants to try and get it high up in the Google search engine and he was wondering if he did this sites: http://www.preloved.co.uk/fuseaction-affiliates.default/f8693e24.html
affiliate program whether it would help him get to the top in Google. I ask only becuase i have seen people say it helps to have other sites linked on your website.

Thanks.

 

[SiriusB]

Why would you need a reply form at the bottom of an email? All someone has to do is click "reply" type your message then hit "submit" and hey presto it is sent to your dad.

If you meant an email form on a webpage then you will need to either create or download one. Common languages for this are PHP and ASP. A lot of decent webhosts probably even offer contact forms ready to use.

For your second question, getting high in Google's rankings takes a fair bit of work on your part, and just sticking your url on another website isn't guaranteed to work as well as you think, if at all.

There are loads of websites with detailed information on what you need to do to help your rankings. However a few basic things are making sure your pages are valid XHTML, no broken links, all the information on each page is well laid out and is relevant to the page's subject.

 

[simisker]

Forms in e-mails? It's technically possible... though I wouldn't recommend it, for all manner of reasons.

My favourite being this example: in Outlook, if you're typing in a form's text area within the preview pane and make a typing error you want to correct, hitting the 'delete' key will send the entire e-mail to trash. Even assuming the user figures out what's happened, they're probably not going to be bothered enough to retrieve the e-mail and carefully re-populate the form.

Webmail clients also tend to strip out a form's functionality and/or styling code - Google Mail is, to my knowledge, the only one which doesn't.

If your father wants to obtain interested parties' contact details, put a link in the e-mail to a landing page on his web site which contains the form.