The basics of creating an email form
Posted by amywe on November 12, 2008
Following are the basic and most important steps for creating a functional and esthetic email form:
1- Drag and drop elements
Choose the relevant elements for you and drag them on to the design area.
2- Layout and alignment
Since the layout is not rigid in the formlogix form builder you can place your elements anywhere you wish in the design area.
Use the alignment options to place your elements in perfect alignment (align top/bottom/left/right) and use the “make same height/width option to define equal spacing between elements.
3- Element settings
Select each and every element and enter the relevant information and settings for it. The most important setting that must be entered in the element “caption”.
The caption is the name of the element and will appear in different palaces: the emails, the data management tool report, the filters, etc.
Another important attribute in the element settings is the “tab index” with which you can define the order of fields when the form filler tabs through them (uses the “tab” key).
Apart from the mentioned above the element settings holds the width and height of the element, the capability to define a mandatory field as well as define the background, font color and add style code.
All that’s left now is to save the form, preview it and try it out before publishing the form and embedding it in your site.