Admissions Information Request

[ElliotFriend]

A form for somebody to request more information.

We may actually need to direct this stuff through blackbaud, though...

Emailed Haley, so we'll see what she says.

[ElliotFriend]

Like with the "Alumni information update" form, I think we'll start with this on our page, and move it to the blackbaud forms website later on.

Furthermore, we'll also want to add a block so that in with the features view we could put a very short, simple "request some information" form.

[ElliotFriend]

I'm making some decent progress on this. Here's how it's looking so far:

The next thing I want to take care of is to really create one form out of both of these. Meaning, I want one form that asks for a bunch of stuff (like this stuff: https://slcconline.edu/admissions/freshman/request_more_information/), but only requests a subset of this information (name, phone, email) on the frontpage (teaser view).

[ElliotFriend]

It may not be possible to combine these into one form, like I was hoping. It doesn't look like I'm able to specify which fields ought to be in the teaser. Although, I sure hope that it's doable!

[ElliotFriend]

Updated screenshot:

[ElliotFriend]

Still To-Do:

• [x] Create the companion form that asks for a bunch more information from a prospective student (this needs to be done on the production site)

[ElliotFriend]

Also To-Do:

• [x] Create the quick-form on the production site so it's ready when the CSS makes it's way to production

By way of an update, the view and design seem to work perfectly on staging, so I'm bumping this towards production

[ElliotFriend]

http://stlchristian.org/admissions/request-more-information

More To-Do:

• [x] Style the long-form so that it doesn't look like a monkey slapped it together (that's why dev is tagged again)
• [x] Test the email settings to make sure things look good and work right.
• [x] Put the actual values for the emails into place... (this might take some thought. Using our current domain flags some of the messages as spam because of our SPF DNS settings. That will have to be sorted out eventually, anyway. For now, I'm going to leave the stlchristian.org domain for the email addresses) the "sender email should be changed before we go live, btw

[ElliotFriend]

Putting most of the components' labels above them makes it look much more uniform! I did some styling (will be pushing soon) for the prospective term/year items, though. And I made the labels look a little nicer.

[ElliotFriend]

I'm taking this up to Haley to get her "blessing" before we close the ticket. Glad to (almost) have something done ha!

[ElliotFriend]

Got this feedback from Haley:

• [x] Remove day and night classes from the bottom list of checklist
• [x] Change "free class" to "tuition-free class"

[ElliotFriend]

Closing now with the expectation that we'll re-open once we hear back what Haley wants to send out as an auto-response email.

[ElliotFriend]

Haley got back with me about what to put in the auto-response for the short form. Still waiting to hear back about the long form.

I'm also working on making it send emails as html, rather than plain text.

[ElliotFriend]

Specifying HTML in the headers is a no-go. It just makes the emails look terrible, and all the line breaks are jacked up.