lecture 8: conclusion

what's coming in lecture 9

Throughout the Advanced Web Techniques option we are considering ways in which you can increase the level of interaction with your readers. What we've done so far is pretty crude, however, and really only creates interactions between the reader and the screen.

Forms, on the other hand, are a way in which you can begin real interactions between your visitors and you, the site author (or owner). They are how you can get boxes and buttons onto your page which can be used to acquire information from your visitors. Any web site which requires visitors to enter information unique to them, or to make choices between one or more options then "submit" that choice, is using a form.

How to place forms on your page and - at a basic level - how to process the information users return are the subjects of next week's lecture.