kbAlertz.com Knowledge Base

kbAlertz.com is proud to announce the ability to let you host your own sign-up form, on your website, for your users. When a user fills out the sign-up form, they will be transfered to kbAlertz.com, their account will be created, and they will receive an e-mail notification that their account was created.

The technologies can either be in a <input type="hidden" value=""> field or some partners choose to represent multiple technologies with a group of Check Boxes. If you prefer the latter, simply name all the check box items the same, with Values of the technology and the form will post it as a comma delimited string.

If everything you just read knocked you socks off, don't worry, it's not as hard as it sounds. Cut and paste either of the below HTML code blocks into your web page and it'll work just fine.

The sample HTML will allow you to create the sign-up form, and you're free to customize this to your desires. Through experimentation, we've found that using the kbAlertz.com screen shot is a nice way to let your users know they will be leaving your site, and in fact are signing up for a third party service. On most of our partner sites, we even put a little blurb (as in the sample) that the user will be transfered from your website to kbAlertz.com. When the process is complete, and the sign-up process is completed, the user will see a welcome screen explaining what just happened, and that they can check their e-mail to find a welcome notice from kbAlertz.com.

So now on to the good stuff. The technology to place this web form on your site is very simple. Basically what you're going to be doing is "posting" a web request to the kbAlertz.com PartnerSignup.aspx page. If you're not a technical person, don't let this scare you, it'll be easy to follow the directions.

Below you'll find two examples. First is a full example, of how you might display a kbAlertz.com sign-up form. Second, is the bare minimum that you need to setup a sign-up form. We believe you'll have better results using a form like the first example.

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                  Microsoft Knowledge Base and emails subscribers informing them of updates and 

                  additions.<br>

                  Enter your e-mail addres and click [Sign Up], to recieve [Insert Technology 

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                  <form id="kbAlertz" action="http://www.kbalertz.com/PartnerSignup.aspx">

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                        <input type="hidden" name="PartnerID" value="YOURIDHERE" ID="PartnerID">

                        <input type="hidden" name="Technology" value="20,13,213" ID="Hidden1">

                        <input size="35" name="email" ID="Text1">

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                        <select name="isHtml" ID="Select1">

                           <option value="HTML" selected>HTML</option>

                           <option value="PLAIN">Plain Text</option>

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                        <input type="submit" value="Sign Up" NAME="Submit">

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                        Note, when you sign-up using this form you will be automatically 

                        transfered to 

                        <A href="http://www.kbAlertz.com" target="_new">KB Alertz.com</A>.

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