Development Idea...

This module is to fill the gap with the DNN feedback module. The idea is that most users creating a web site for business or pleasure will want to place a form to allow email contact from the site.

The reason it is better to have a form on your web site rather than an email address is to avoid spam, look professional, and ask specific questions.. Any time you have an email address viable on your site, that address will get picked up by malicious users (usually with automated spiders) and added to spam lists. Once this occurs, the work of spam in your email box is about to begin.

To counter this, and give a more professional feel to your site, it is best to offer users a form that in turn sends email directly to you, without revealing to the world your email address.

This is where the "Complete Feedback" module for DNN comes in. Drop this little baby in your site. Configure it to ask users for specific fields of information. Configure where the completed forms will be sent. And you are done.

We have found that our clients include Club, and Associations, Schools all the way through to small business. Anyone who want to keep an easily managed dynamic web site. We have several hundred satisfied clients of our earlier version "Complete Feedback Designer" and now we offer a far more developed product.

Feature Highlights -It is not easy to list all of the features, however we will try to list the major product features below.

• Easy to Use This module will install on it's own, or upgrade an existing instillation of "Complete Feedback Designer". You install is as a PA for DotNetNuke, and insert it as a module on any page. Simple to configure with simple menus for settings.
• Small and Fast Even though the module is feature rich, we have worked hard to keep the ASP.NET 2 code to a minimum. This means the module will run fast on DNN.
  
  Small PA File Size - Well designed and fast.
• New Menu System We have created a simple to use menu system for configuring the module. This helps to keep the module easy to user for users who are new to DNN.
  
  Simple Menu with Icons
• It Works Many of us have experienced frustrations with expensive modules that don't work. The either break or don't work as advertised. Our dedication to this working module is evident in the fact that we have sold hundreds of working modules and continue to develop all of our modules as a full time effort. This is what we do!
  
  Proven and Reliable
• Intro Texts Many users have requested that we include some intro text that is positioned above the module by way of introduction to the form. Not only have we added this feature, but the text ties into the Text/HTML editor in your site. You can position HTML Text and Images in the introduction.
  
  Intro text now has HTML Support
• Multiple Email Settings The email settings have been enhanced to include BCC, Subject, Display "Send Copy". This means that when submitted, the form can not only be sent to multiple email addresses, but a Blind Carbon Copy (unannounced) email can be sent to someone. A manager or supervisor for example.
  
  Multiple email settings can be configured
• Auto Reply Email Settings Many of our users wanted an "Auto Reply" option. We have now included this feature. Now you can configure Text/HTML email replies that are sent automatically to the person filling in the form. This allow you to acknowledge by way of instant reply the submission of the form, and give that all important initial contact back to the site user.
  
  Auto Reply email message contain HTML
• Edit the Look and Feel Make simple changes to the size and display of the form. Or for advanced users, edit the HTML code driving the form. This feature has been much improved in this release of the module.
  
  Editing the look and feel has never been easier.
• Upgrade Path This module will upgrade the original "Complete Feedback Designer" as we have worked hard to ensure that we continue to build on our products ensuring that upgrades are seamless. There is no upgrade pricing, but rather, we have kept the price at an extremely competitive rate. This ensures that you can make a simple decision to upgrade for the new features in this release.
• From Email Email messages sent via this module appear to come from the email address of the person sending this form. This way you can simply reply to the message directly from your email application. It also assists with penetration of spam filters etc, as the incoming email is correctly formatted.
• Change form Order Changing the order of items is as easy as ever before. Use the arrows in our Form Items manger to change the order that items appear. You can allow delete and edit items in this one simple location.
  
  Editing the order of items is easy.
• Configurable Maximum Character Length for TextBoxes (both SingleLine and MultiLine).These have been tested and work correctly under FireFox
  
  This is easily configured here:
  
• View Submitted Forms Now you can turn on the option to view submitted forms. Not only is the email sent out but also stored on the database.
  
  
  
• Email Formatting has been included. Email messages sent from the module can now be formatted as html email messages. The big advantage of this is that is allows the person receiving the form as an email to reply to the message in their email application, and have their html formatted email signatures correctly incerted into the message for delivery.
  
  Email Formatting Options
  
  Sample Email as Displayed in Outlook 2007
• See a Working Demo We have created a working demo site that has some sample form fields here. Please feel free to play around with this form. Click Here
• Anonymous Forms can be sent. If the anonymous forms option is enabled, the engine with fill in missing mandatory fields like from email address to ensure that the email is sent sucessfully.
• URL Tracking the URL of the page prior to arriving at the feedback form page can be tracked. This allows a single form to be used on a site that tracks the page where the user initiated the enquiry. Handy for example in a store, every product page can link to a singe form for enquiry, and the recipient of the email can easily see the product that the person was enquiring about.
• Submit form Buttons - We have enabled the ability to place an image button for the send and reset icons. You can also edit their positions on the page.
  
  Select Images or Text for Send/Reset
• Database Recording - You can have all submitted forms stored to a database. These forms can be viewed from within the module or sent via CSV to an email address.
  
• Database Recording - You can have your form include a request for human validation with the use of form Capcha.
• Date Selector - Date selector Java Script Entity type.

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