Step 5: Click Next on the Form Page Wizard. You are then prompted to begin entering your questions for the survey (Figure 5). In this example, I'll use a list of questions that I would like to create for my client's IT Specialist.com Web site. My client submitted the questions to me in Microsoft Word, which makes all the more easier. I now begin the rather simple process of cutting and pasting the questions into the wizard. It's important at this juncture to explain the various question or Input Types that FrontPage has imbedded in this form wizard.

Form Page Wizard Input Types or prompts listed in order:

Contact Information - includes Web address and email address fields. We'll be using this field prompt to generate a field that requests just a few of the overall questions listed in the prompt.

Account Information - is a logon field generator that includes name, password, and password verifier function. This is useful if you are building a security-enhanced Web site or registration form for members of your site. Since we are developing a simple survey or list of questions this function is not needed.

Product Information - is an input Type for companies that are selling products and want to offer support. Fields such as, Product name, Model, Serial number, etc., are generated for the form. Again, this has no use in our example, since we are developing a simple user survey.

Ordering Information - is used to develop an electronic order form for products. We have no need to collect this type of information for our survey form.

Personal Information - prompts for personal information, such name, hair color, eye color, sex, etc. I don't recommend using this for most surveys as much of the information is too personal..

One of Several Options - is a very useful input prompt or field for our form. This input prompt is totally customizable. You can create a simple list, radio buttons or predefined selections for the survey participant to input in the online form. The power of the prompt is that it is designed to elicit a singular response to a question, nothing in between. Radio buttons and check lists are the easiest for people to understand so it is good to stick to them when designing a form.

Any of Several Options - allows a user to select several options from a checklist. The user is prompted to check the appropriate boxes or fields that are applicable to them relating to the survey.

Boolean - is a simple yes or no input prompt. You type the question and the participant can answer simply yes or no. A very powerful function of any survey since all the reader has to do is click a box.

Date & Time - generates a date and time field for the form and allows for multiple formats. This information can also be captured automatically from the system, such as through the form properties feature in FrontPage or fed to a database when the form is submitted to the server for processing.

Range - allows a user to easily score a question based on a number from one to ten for example.

Number - allows a user to enter an integer, such as a price or other numeric value.

String - allows a user to type in a simple one-sentence character string. This is a useful prompt for most surveys. It allows you to get a direct response from the survey participant in their own words.

Paragraph - allows you to place a text box that can accept anything from a sentence to a resume. This is particularly useful for a survey participant's personal comments, such as issues not covered on the survey.

Figure 4 The Contact prompt dialog box of the Form Page Wizard.

Step 6: We'll start building the survey form by using the first Form Page Wizard Input Type in the list of available selections (Figure 4), referred to as the Contact prompt. In this example, I use on an email address which is question number one on the survey. Most users on the Web will not supply any personal information for legitimate reasons , so we'll ask for their email address only.

Note the field titled "Enter the base name for this group of variables:" This field label is used to associate all of the variable information collected, and also support field labels for databases as well as confirmation forms. You can override the labels by typing in your own field labels, but to keep things moving along we'll use the default labels provided throughout the wizard.

Click Next after completing this input prompt to return to the Add Input Type screen as shown in Figure 5. You will now see the first prompt listed in the box, a field prompt for the participant's email address.

Figure 5 The initial input prompt dialog box for the Form Page Wizard.

We'll now move on to create the questions pertinent to our client's survey for IT Specialist.com by clicking the Add button once again.

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