Once you've made your own Web page and learned how to publish it to your personal Webspace on the Sympatico service, you may be interested in implementing some advanced functions the Sympatico service gives you with personal Webspace.

These instructions assume you have a suitable comfort level with choosing and using software to make a Web page and that you understand or have experience with Steps 1 through 3 of Putting up your page. If not, please review those steps before trying the advanced functions described here. Print this page so you can have it handy when you're not connected to the Sympatico service.

The directions given here for applying advanced functions to your Webspace are for your convenience. Sympatico Member Services is not equipped to handle specific member queries about using e-mail links, counters, forms and image maps. The examples provided here work with the Sympatico service; but you are not limited to using these. See Webspace Resources for alternatives described on other Web sites which can be applied to your Web pages.

Use Web pages that impress you as examples of how to use these advanced functions on your Web page. When you're looking at a Web page which uses e-mail links, counters, forms, or image maps, click on the View menu and choose Source to see how the page was written and where the HTML for the advanced functions is placed.

The following two advanced functions, page hit counters and forms, make use of cgi (Common Gateway Interface) scripts. You don't need to know how these scripts work to use them. In most cases you only need to copy and paste the relevant HTML code from the instructions here, to the appropriate place in your text-only Web page document. The scripts are stored on and executed from the Sympatico personal Web space server. For security reasons members cannot use their own CGI scripts.

Everyone wants to know how many other Internet surfers have seen their Web page. A page hit counter displays the number of hits the page has received.

More about page hit counters

Forms can be used for simple tasks like asking surfers visiting your page to give you feedback on your Web page, to surveys, where the information is solicited and submitted to your Sympatico e-mail address.

Select your Sympatico service provider from the pull-down menu below for details about using forms.

You can create a simple form that doesn't use any server-side scripts and will work with any Sympatico service provider. Find out how.

The following functions do not use CGI scripts.

You can easily add a hyperlink on your personal Web page to your Sympatico e-mail address. When Internet surfers click on this link, their browser e-mail opens a new message window with your e-mail address already entered in the Mail To: field.

The Web is known as the multimedia part of the Internet, and pictures of various sorts - still, moving, big, small - certainly add to this label. You can convert your favourite photographs to an electronic format and add them to your personal Webspace. You can also create your own images or copy images from art libraries (available on diskette or CD-ROM, or on the Internet) and include them on your Web pages.

An image map is an image with "mouse-clickable" regions defined by xy coordinates. Using an image map allows you to define (or "map") specific areas of the image to be hyperlinked to another Web page or location (URL) on the Internet when clicked on with a mouse pointer.