Create Sean: Journey to Professional Designer

I’ve been busy this week with my teaching job and other personal interferences and haven’t been able to get much coding done.

Today I finally got back to work and jumped into forms as my current client has three relatively large forms needed for the site. I’ve heard many good things about the FreeForm Module for ExpressionEngine, but hadn’t tried it out until now. I had it installed, but didn’t really know where to begin - partly due to poor documentation and partly due to never having made a form.

Via twitter gexla, a.k.a John Fuller, offered some help and we chatted for about 10 minutes on MSN and suddenly the lightbulb went off. I’ve since got my first form installed and it’s working for the most part. on submit it redirects to the “We’ve recieved your submission” page, but no email is sent and there is no entry in the module admin page.

I’ve posted on the Solspace Forums and am awaiting a response. I’m sure things will get worked out strait away as I’ve always gotten very helpful support there.

Client site is actually about 85% done - a little styling to go, have to finish the forms, fix the superfish bug in IE and decide how to implement one section of the site so that it has drop down menu as well as a flyout from several of the dropdowns. Not sure how to proceed yet. Fortunately for me, the client is in not in a rush at this point.