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Why
Use Form?
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Organize your responses from the web.
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Control your customer database.
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Send bulk mails or print mailing
labels.
Why use TwinGrid?
- Organize your internet business data
or your customer information.
- Simple, no complicated server side programming (CGI, Perl, or
whatever)
is needed.
- Design and change your query form
as often as you like. No need to change ASP code.
- Excellent for Intranet or Internet temporary survey projects.
- Operates like a spreadsheet. It is
easy to use.
- New data can be loaded
directly from your regular email.
- Navigate your
database with ease. Click or scroll with keyboard or mouse.
- Instant form view of each record as you navigate the database.
- Highlight your data by
changing font colors or styles: bold, italic or underline.
- Resizable screen and
panels.
- MS Office compatible - copy and paste
data to Excel, Word or other Windows applications.
- Send bulk emails from your desktop - copy and paste email
addresses.
- Save data to grid file, comma-delimited file
(Excel ready), or tab-delimited file.
- Easily transfer mailing
labels to Word for printing.
- It is cost effective ($89 only).
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Why not use a Server-side Database?
- Your ISPs or web page
hosting agents probably do not allow you to install a database
on their machines.
- To retrieve the data, you need to get
on the net or download the database.
- To maintain the database,
you need to go to the server to delete unwanted records, change database
structure, compact the database, etc.
- It is a tedious job to modify the interface program every
time you change the form.
- Regardless, we still provide the ASP
code to guide you on how to write data on the server side. However, you
need to maintain the database by yourself - don't let it grow too big.
- It is very expensive to hire someone to design the
program, design the database, and maintain the database.
- You have increased data
security to not let
your valuable business information reside in your hosting agent's machine.
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What's wrong with the
'mailto:' function?
- Some
earlier versions of Microsoft IE3 and IE4 browsers do not support
form 'mailto' function. What happens is when the users of those
browsers click the Submit button, the email window pops up.
That means about 20% to 30% of your customers cannot respond to the
form to you. That's too bad.
- 'mailto:'
submits all fields in your form to your email box. You have no
control on the order of the fields or which fields you don't want
them to appear in the email. This is crucial when you are dealing
with sensitive issues or credit card information.
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What's wrong with
TwinGrid's competitors?
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Too
complicate to use. |
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Some
still use 'mailto' function. |
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No
sorting, editing, searching functions. |
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There's
a lots of differences. Take a close look at TwinGrid screen design |
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Can the responses be
automatically stored to TwinGrid file?
No.
TwinGrid runs on your machine (so called client-side). If you want to
store data on the server machine (your ISP or hosting agent), we provide
the ASP code that allow you to write data to a file or to a database
table.
However, this is the beauty of TwinGrid. If you
receive less than 30 responses a day, we guarantee you will enjoy
collecting and managing data from your desktop.
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