If you’re tired of wading through an inbox full of garbage to find legitimate emails from your customers, this quick fix will save the day!

If you’re using an older version of AspDotNetStorefront you’re probably overwhelmed with the junk mail coming through your built-in contact form on a daily basis.

You should upgrade. AspDotNetStorefront 8.0 is packed with great new features, enhanced security, and a completely redesigned Admin interface that will make your life a lot easier. Learn how to upgrade to AspDotNetStorefront 8.0.

If you’re not ready to make the change, here’s how to activate an incredibly helpful piece of code that will prevent a whole lot of junk mail from getting to your inbox.

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In our last installment on email marketing, we covered the advantages of email marketing and how to capture email addresses from visitors to your website.

Now that you are collecting email addresses from your customers, it is time to develop a plan to use them.

There are many types of email campaigns that can be implemented. Some, such as limited time offers and notices of special events, are designed to quickly drive traffic to your site. The goal with these campaigns is to increase sales over the short term. (more…)

In every AspDotNetStorefront site, there is a contact form page that visitors can use to send you a message.

This is set up as a topic, and you can find it by going to www.yourdomain.com/t-contact.aspx.

This page can be modified through the HTML editor just like any other topic by going to Content > Manage Topics in version 8.0 or Misc > Topics in earlier versions.

Here, you can make any changes you like to the layout of the page, but what about modifying the actual email you get in your inbox when the contact form is submitted?

Unfortunately, there’s no HTML editor for that. Luckily, we found a great feature built right into AspDotNetStorefront that allows you to customize the contact form! Without this feature, you’ll still get your contact form results in your inbox, but using this feature will allow you to change the way it’s displayed.

This is especially useful for quoting the original message in an email response to the visitor, but if you don’t want those extra strange form tags to show up. What’s a ‘B1′? Who knows…let’s get rid of it!

This tutorial will show you how to turn this:

Name=Nicole Swan
Phone=541-201-9965
EMail=nicole@vortx.com
Subject=Contact Form Submit Test
S1=This is a test message submitted from the Contact Us page.
B1=Submit

into this:

Name: Nicole Swan
Phone Number: 541-201-9965
Email: nicole@vortx.com
Subject: Contact Form Submit Test
Message: This is a test message submitted from the Contact Us page.

This tutorial requires a basic knowledge of HTML and XML Packages. If you know a little HTML but you’re not familiar with XML Packages, read on! This tutorial will help you get to know them.
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