Customizing your email form
Posted by amywe on October 23, 2008
So you have an email form…ah? Well that’s great…but how about customizing it? Changing its rigid layout? Customizing the email sent to form fillers and mailing list recipients?
Defining the form’s expiration date? Redirecting the form once submitted? Adding a spam filter? This can all be done with an email form builder.
Fixed forms may always be purchased. Even when a programmer creates a form tailored especially for you, it is given to you without you being able to change anything about it and any alteration will cost you extra.
However, when you create a form yourself, using a form builder, you can always change it. Add elements, images, move the fields around, change their background color and font colors etc. and no- you do not need any programming skills to do this. An email form maker enables you to easily create your form, and once it is done you can always make alterations and customize it.
Changing the format of the email sent to form fillers, for example, is really simple.
The default format of the email sent consists of the fields list and the data entered in them. All you need to do in order to accomplish this is:
1- enter the form
2- go to the form settings on the right
3- press on the “…” button of the “custom user email” option.
4- Write the text you want to appear in the email
5- You can style this text using the “edit text” button
6- You can add form variables to this text by choosing the field variable from the list and pressing on the “add variable” button.
7- Press on “save”
8- Save the form
Sounds pretty easy? That’s because it is!