Form is fine for email responses, but I was referring to company address and
phone number. A lot of people like to call and talk to humans as well as
know where the company they are buying from is located.

"Clyde Gill" > wrote in message
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> Adam: Your preference for no forms comes off as rather odd to me, and
> is not consistant with my experience with websites. I'm curious as to
> why you're so against it? Once a contact form was added to our winery
> site, response was well over tenfold from the old "mailto:" link,
> which btw will not work with some browsers (ie. Linx). The main
> reasons behind using this type of form stems from two other benefits:
>
> First, spambots cannot reach my email, which is very important when
> trying to conduct business online. Spam generated from displaying on
> the web can become phenomenal (literally hunderds a day), and spam
> screeners are imperfect. I actually received one "manual spam" that
> was complaining that they could not find my email!
>
> Second, the information supplied by a form is dumped into a database
> where it can be both stored properly/automatically, and then retrieved
> easily.
>
> Of course, none of this is important if it turns customers away, but I
> have to wonder how prevalent your viewpoint relative to the rest of
> the public?!
>
> The intent is to add the phone number and mailing address to the pages
> once this is taken to the "live" stage.
>
> Once into the online order system, there's a drop down menu for
> "state". Selecting "Missouri" will add sales tax to the order. Your
> reminder will help me to remember to put it on the mail-in forms!
> Payment of all orders is processed by hand, so if someone skips this
> step using either method it can be dealt with later.
>
> A video addition is an interesting idea..... something I'll look into.
> That'll require a model, which means interviews..... I like this
> idea!! It strikes me as odd that I didn't think of this. (kT, looking
> over my shoulder, is not to hot on the idea of a model pushing my
> buttons) As mentioned in the original post, my thinking was to display
> it live at trade shows, but it is really so simple to use that there's
> not much to demonstrate. It will require an electrican to install,
> but after that, it's basically "plug and play". In other words, you
> plug the pump into the unit, turn the power switch on, and the remote
> becomes 'live'.