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Summary: Using secure forms on your web page(s) is easy with ReachONE Internet. Secure forms provide you with an opportunity to gather information, take orders, collect credit card info from people who visit your web site and at the same time give them confidence that their information is secure (encrypted) from their computer to yours.

ReachONE Internet has established a blanket certificate through Thawte Digital Certificate Services (acquired by Verisign on 2/2/00) so you don't have to, thus saving you money. If you wish to have your own digital certificate with your company listed on it instead of ReachONE, please contact us at info@reachone.com.

How To Make Your Page Secure: For your web page to be secure, all you have to do is have the referring page (link) include an "https" at the beginning of the URL. For example: http://www.reachone.com/questionnaire.htm would not be a secure link, but https://www.reachone.com/questionnaire.htm would be because you added an "s" at the end of http. It can't get much easier than that! By clicking on the links above you can see how your browser responds to a secure verses and unsecure connection.

HTML Programming: On your actual page that contains your form, it is important to use html code similar to the following when creating your form.

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Forms Sample Page</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
Please enter your personal information:
<P>
<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="https://www.reachone.com/securemail/send.asp">
<input type="hidden" name="header1" value="This Email was sent via ReachONE Internet Form Mailer">
Your email address: <input type="text"> [ this is the form sender's email address ]
<input type="hidden" name="mailto" value="webmaster@reachone.com"> [ your email address would be in place of "webmaster@reachone.com" ]
<input type="hidden" name="smtpserv" value="mail.reachone.com">
<input type="hidden" name="subject" value="Order Form"> [ call your form whatever you like by replacing "Order Form" ]
<input type="hidden" name="returntourl" value="https://www.reachone.com/thankyou.htm"> [ this returntourl is the page you want the browser to return to after they hit the submit button- maybe a thank you page would be appropriate. Be sure to replace the "https://www.reachone.com/thankyou.htm" in the coding with the page you want people to go to ].
First Name: <INPUT TYPE="text">
Last Name: <INPUT TYPE="text">
Address: <INPUT TYPE="text">
<INPUT TYPE="reset">
<INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="Send the Info!">
</form>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Go see a sample at http://www.reachone.com/travel.htm. This page has a link to the secure web page https://www.reachone.com/questionnaire.htm. When you press submit, up comes a nice thank you page.

Building Confidence: If you wish to build confidence in the mind of the person submitting you information you can put text at the top of your forms page that says something like, "To order on our secure server where your information is encrypted for security purposes, please give us the following info:" and/or you can also include the Thawte icon below

For more advanced Forms click here.

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