NetForms is the Web server "back-end" that will allow you to create interactive
Web sites. NetForms is more than just a single-purpose add-on to a Web server. Instead, NetForms is a multipurpose CGI that provides Webmasters with commands that allow for a great deal of customization and creativity, features that will keep visitors to your Web site coming back again and again.

What exactly can NetForms do for your Web site? There are four tasks that NetForms can perform when a user submits information to your Web server:

• Create a new HTML page.
• Insert text or HTML into an existing page.
• Store data for later processing by virtually any application (including databases, spreadsheets and text-processors).
• Send an e-mail message.

Just a few examples of uses for NetForms include:

• Creating interactive, threaded, directed discussion forums (bulletin boards, job postings, classified ads, announcements, etc.).
• Allowing users who know nothing about creating Web pages to add content to a Web site, including their own home pages, news articles, project or classroom updates, and more.
• Automatically maintaining a Guest Book where users can sign in as well as read about people who have visited your Web site.
• Accepting product orders and other requests.
• Enabling users to automatically subscribe to e-mail lists or send feedback via e-mail messages by filling out an html form.

NetForms, and your creativity, will enable you to generate flexible, easy-to-use forms to make your Web server stand out from the crowd.

Listed are the various sections of the EOS Netforms help manual.

• Creating HTML Entry Forms
  
• Creating FDML Documents
• Primary Directives
• Supplemental Directives
• Insertion Commands
• Creating An Autolink File
  
• Creating A Response File
  
• Creating Recent Articles Lists
  
• Examples
• A Simple Example: Recipes
• A Tricky Example: Feedback
• Updating Pages: Guestbook
• Sending Mail: Mail Demo