Setting Validation Rules to Ensure Correct Data Entry

Creating an effective Web page form is a balancing act: you want the form to be easy for your users to fill out. But you also want the information to be useful to you, and you want to control how users fill out the form, so that they give you the information you are looking for. If you’re running a business on the Web, it’s critical that your customers fill out registration, purchase, and shipping forms accurately.

FrontPage can help you create validation rules that give users the freedom to submit the data they want while ensuring that the data is transmitted in the form in which you need it. By taking a little extra time to set up rules that users need to follow when they fill out forms (also called forms validation), you enable the process of verifying that the forms have been filled out accurately and completely.