New Screencast: Walkthrough of Contact Form - CSS-Tricks

New Screencast: Walkthrough of Contact Form

By: Chris Coyier on June 5th, 2008 — Posted in: Quick Tip / Trick

In some ways, the Contact Form is the “Hello, World!” application of web designers and web developers. It is nothing that hasn’t been done before a million times, but it is symbolic of being able to control the design of a page as well as make a page truly functional. In this screencast I talk about contact forms in general as well as quickly walk through the design, creating, and functionality of Contact Form.

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Thanks! I got a barebones version to work here:

http://nikibrown.com/contact-form/

Comment by Niki Brown — June 5, 2008 @ 2:09 pm
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Hey Chris, yet again another great tutorial. I am excited to continue learning about jquery and php tricks from you. I am a student photographer and self taught web designer and am very inspired by your work.

Quick question: Is an independent SQL server needed when creating a contack form similar to this one. I ask this because you said that the contactengine.php is what really runs the show here. Maybe a silly question but.. you have to learn somehow.

Cheers

Comment by Chris Barnett — June 8, 2008 @ 9:25 pm
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@Chris Barnett: No database is used here. I know a lot of times when PHP is used, it is because there is a database involved, but not the case here =)

Comment by Chris Coyier — June 9, 2008 @ 5:15 am

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