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What's the Difference Between the Classic and New Web Form Builder?

Our Flash-based Web Form Builder has been one of our most popular applications to date, but we completely redesigned it to make it take full advantage of HTML 5, the most recent standard in web...

What Email Address Does Web Form Builder Use?

In Web Form Builder's Email Notices tab, you can choose to receive a notification message (an email sent to you, the form creator) or an auto-response message (an email sent to the...

What are the Server Requirements to use Web Form Builder?

Most people don't want to even worry about server requirements, because it can be complicated stuff. That's why so many people choose to use CoffeeCup S-Drive to host their forms....

How to Add a Form to Your Page

Embed a web form into your website So, you want to add your form to a web editor such as the Site Designer, HTML Editor, or Dreamweaver? Well, here are two options to...

I Get a T_OBJECT_OPERATOR Error when Submitting a Form

If you've published/uploaded your form to your server and are testing it, you might see an error that looks similar to this when clicking the submit button: Parse error : syntax error,...

What are these CPF and CPFS files, anyway?

In your HTML Editor's Website Project folder, there are two files that contain data about your project: The .cpf file is your project source file, and contains the path to your...

How to Customize a Manual Captcha Box

You can configure Web Form Builder to use the reCAPTCHA system to validate a user's human-ness by choosing either Automatic (S-Drive Only) or Manual from the Captcha drop-down in the...

Use Web Form Builder to Create a Guest Book with Streams

Want a guestbook on your S-Drive Site? Here's how to use your Stream as a guest book powered by a form built in Web Form Builder. Create your form in Web Form Builder, including any...

Activating Your Account

When you first create your CoffeeCup account we will send a message to the email address you used with a link to activate your account. We do this to make sure you own that email address and...

html editor upgrade instructions

With the latest release of CoffeeCup HTML Editor, we made some modifications to the installer to allow for greater flexibility on how the software can be installed. This improvement now allows for...

Tricks for HTML Editor 12.5

Everybody likes customizing stuff and learning secret stuff, right? Well, we wanted to give you the scoop on some tweaks with the HTML Editor that give you a bit more control over how the tabs...

How to configure MailChimp

Mailing list support is without a doubt a snazzy and useful feature in Web Form Builder. When you set up a mailing list, you can use your form to collect information from people to be used on a...

Problems Uninstalling the HTML Editor

When attempting to uninstall the HTML Editor, you may receive this message: "This software was installed under an account with administrator rights. You should log on an account with...

"Your form could not be submitted for the following reason(s)"

It's a good idea to test your form to ensure it works properly before making it publicly available. That way you can catch errors like this one! If you submit your form and you get this...

MailChimp Compatibility Errors

Web Form Builder has a lot of mailing list options, and most of them must be entirely compatible with those required by MailChimp in order for your form to properly interface with your mailing...

Overriding the default "from:" address in Web Form Builder

By default, any emails you receive will come from formname@domain.com (where "formname" is the saved name of your form and "domain.com" is your publishing domain). However,...

A script on this page is causing Internet Explorer to run slowly

When you try to publish or export your form using Web Form Builder, this alert may appear: Here's a quote from Microsoft that helps explain this error: " Because some...

Regular Expressions in Web Form Builder

Web Form Builder 1.2 introduces the Reg. Expression element. This is a very versatile element that allows a wide range of custom uses, from an "Only Letters" field to an "eBay...

Regular Expression Examples

This is a list of more advanced regular expressions that can be used with the Regular Expression element in Web Form Builder 1.2+. Don't know what a regular expression is or how to use...

Customizing Web Calendar Images with Web Image Studio

Web Image Studio can be used to customize the graphics in any CoffeeCup theme or graphics pack, which means that you can tweak any aspect of your Web Calendar themes! It's actually really easy...

The Payments Property in Web Form Builder

You can accept payments in Web Form Builder by enabling the form payments option. You can then configure certain form elements as payment fields. To enable form payments, click the Settings...

How to increase maximum file upload size

Web Form Builder has a maximum file upload size of 8129kB per file upload button. The reason why we have a file size limit is because the majority  of shared hosting companies out there...

Understanding S-Drive Form Stats

Publishing forms built in Web Form Builder to S-Drive is not only the easiest way to get your forms on the web, it's also the most fun way to do it. You don't have to touch any HTML code...

Form Limits in the S-Drive Dashboard

Web Form Builder gives you all the tools to build powerful web forms with little to no design or HTML experience. S-Drive Forms gives you a home for those forms without needing your own web...

Setting Up an S-Drive Account in Web Form Builder

The easiest way to get your form online is by entering your CoffeeCup account information in the Form Publishing tab of the Settings menu. Trust us, it literally takes seconds to set up and...

Publishing a Form to S-Drive with Web Form Builder

Publishing your forms to the web is easy when you use Web Form Builder's built-in S-Drive integration. Your forms are hosted on our servers and available to the entire world—plus, your...

Choosing where to upload your photo gallery

Creating albums in CoffeeCup Photo Gallery is fun, but you've got to put them on the web for them to be useful! That's why we've equipped this snazzy app to upload your entire gallery...

Can I Transfer My Profiles to Another Computer?

To backup your Direct FTP database, you simply need to copy the file to a secure location. Once you do that, you can then install Direct FTP on the new system and copy the file back.  Here is...

S-Drive Academy: Your Website on S-Drive in 3 Steps

New to S-Drive? No worries! It's actually a very simple way to host full-featured and powerful websites. We have an entire series of tutorials that will help you through many of the wonders of...

S-Drive Academy: Sync with the HTML Editor

Yep, it’s another fun day of class at S-Drive Academy. Today we’re going to show you how a website made with The HTML Editor can be synced to S-Drive. Yes, this is the same...