Contact page won't work

I am new to web design and took over a friends website.?Last night I re-uploaded her contact page with no changes and now when you click the submit button it says no file exists at this address. It says it can't find this file _vti_bin/shtml.dll/contact.htm and neither can I anywhere in her sitemap I downloaded. Any suggestions??

Contact page won't work

A link to the website so we could see the source code would be helpful.

Contact page won't work

Here is the link to the webpage so you can see the source code. Thanks for the suggestion!

http://www.ancientwisdomteachings.com/contact.htm

I am not sure what you want the form to do?

Are you still getting the information when they click send and you just want the page to take them to the confirmation page after its submitted?

or

Are you just not getting the information they type in at all?

When you type in your e-mail address and click ''send'' it says ''page not found.''?Nothing is going to her e-mail address.?What I think may be the problem is that the site was created in frontpage.?I cannot find the file that it says is missing anywhere.?I have tried to delete the form and create a new contact form but that is not working either.

FrontPage creates a lot of files hidden away in directories that start with ''_''. These are usually invisible, so it is likely that DreamWeaver would not have seen them to copy them. Unless FrontPage has changed a lot in the last few years, editing files and up/down loading files using anything other than FP -screws up FP so that it no longer functions.

At this point, you are probably better off just re-creating the form and using either a cgi script or php to email the form results.

Barry

At Barry mentioned, FrontPage uses a proprietary file transfer mechanism and using FTP will corrupt the file structure and server extensions. This will cause things like forms and other FP extension driven code to fail. If you want to fix this you will first need to contact the host and ask them to reinstall the FrontPage extensions. Some hosts will actually charge you for this service as they usually have warnings in their contracts against using FTP on FP sites. Once the extensions are repaired the site may work normally again, but there is a possibility you will have to delete the forms or other pages and recreate them.

I also agree that now is a good time to dump the FP functionality (if you haven't already).