Web survey?

[mthorn]

I want to conduct a web survey, and import responses into a database as automatically as possible. I don't see anything in the documentation about soliciting data through the web. I'm thinking there must be some way to use standard HTML forms, in which mail is sent to me each time a respondent submits data, and automatically (?) have that data imported into my database. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! (By the way, I know that Dragon Web Surveys can do all this, but I took one look at the price and could only laugh. It's obviously targeted at corporations, and I'm just a poor social scientist.)

[Anatoli]

I can do such thing almost on any budget. Contact me if you need that fast.

[mthorn]

I appreciate the offer, but unfortunately my budget is zero, and the whole thing has to be done in Japanese.

[Keith M. Davie]

You need to learn custom web publishing. You need to know html. You need to get the cdml reference. You need to overcome a learning curve or two. And all of this is going to take a bit of time. Since you have a budget of zero, you can expect to starve to death before you finish.

[Tyfud]

Check out http://www.filemaker.com/ and their download section. They have a free CDML reference library to use. You obviously already know HTML or else you wouldn't have posted a topic about wanting to create a form.

[Keith M. Davie]

Tyfud, that he knows html is not obvious. He may intend to use Instant Publishing.

He may not know html but may be familiar with an html editor.

[mthorn]

Thank you for the responses. As it happens I do know HTML. I write mostly by hand, but also with the help of PageSpinner, Dreamweaver, and the W3C's validation service. I don't know beans about Java or XML, but my HTML (to be specific, XHTML 1.0 Transitional) is current and clean as a whistle, for what it's worth. (If you want to check it out for yourself, take a look at www.matt-thorn.com ) I've never used Instant Publishing, and probably won't, since I doubt it produces clean HTML. I've downloaded the CDML files you recommended and will begin studying. Thanks again!

[Tyfud]

Any time Matt! Enjoy!