An online contact form

A contact form is the most common type of form used in websites and blogs. The immediate contact with your users is very important since only they can tell you if you are doing something wrong. Contact forms may be used for feedbacks, technical support, customer service, information, sales etc.

The contact form may be created using a form builder. Read this step by step manual of how to create a contact form and try it yourself.

Online email form wedding invitation

My friend just got married. The mess of it all…invitations, dress, ring, flowers, catering, dj, photographer, hall…what not. I suggested she use an online email form to invite guests and track who ever is coming since she didn’t really have the time to find out herself. “good idea” she said, “but…I don’t know how to create such a thing. And I don’t have the time to learn and anyway, don’t you need to be a programmer for that?”

“no” I answered “you simply need to use a form builder, you don’t need any programming skills”.

After 5 minutes of explaining she calmed down. I took out my laptop, and logged in to my form maker. We started to drag and drop elements from the toolbar: a textbox to collect the person’s name, an email element to collect his/her email address, a checkbox to turn on if you plan to attend and a text area for comments.

The bride to be got so excited that she wanted to play with the web generator herself: started changing the text font and size, the color scheme and generally just moved everything around. She remembered that she had a nice picture of her and her boy friend in her mailbox…”do you think we can add the pic to the form?” she asked. “sure” I answered and dragged an image element on to the form’s design area.

From here to there a great looking form was created. We published it as an email and a link to the form was sent to all of her recipients.

The online invitation was a great success. People were calling to congratulate and say what a beautiful invitation it was and wanted to know how to create a similar form for a friend/relative.  

 

 

Customizing your email form

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!

How to easily create an email form

An email form, once submitted, sends all the data entered in the form to you by email.

Sounds hard to build such a form? Maybe so, if you have no background in programming, but actually it can be really easy if you are using an email form maker.
 

FormLogix is such a tool – it is a WYSIWYG form creator which allows a person with no programming skills whatsoever to create simple as well as sophisticated email forms.

 

All you need to do in order to build an email form is:

1-     Enter the form creator

form builder design area

 

2-     Drag and drop the elements on to the design area

drag elements onto the design area

 

3-     Design the form (background color, fonts, element’s layout on the page, etc.)

design the form

 

4-     Save the form

save the form

 

5-     Publish the form

publish the form

 

 

That’s it! – sounds simple? That’s because it really is!

 

How an Email Form Builder Works

When you use a tool like a fn email form builder there are three major steps for you to do before you can begin using your new forms.  These steps include making the web form, the database, and analyzing the data.

 

A form builder is a tool that allows you to design a form like an email form where people can type in their information and give you important data for your online business.  This includes information like email addresses, names, addresses, phone, and more.

 

The first step to designing a web form with a form builder is to create the form.  This is usually really simple and doesn’t require you to be a professional web developer to be able to do it.  You can usually drag and drop most of the web form when you put it together.  The form builder allows you to create, change, and delete a web form.

 

Once people enter information into an email form and click on submit the data will be viewable through a web interface or however you decide you want the data to be viewable.  The database will allow you to be able to sort through the data and slice it.  You can create, edit, and delete the information that users submit to you.

 

As you gather data through a web form you can also use a form builder query functionality to filter data and create charts based on the information you have received.  There is no point in using an email form through a form builder if you aren’t going to use the information to your advantage.

 

There are three primary functions of a form builder that you can use to your advantage for your online business.  These steps include building an email form, maintaining the data through a database, and analyzing the data.

Features of an Email Form Builder

There are many features you can use on a email form builder for your online site.  Many form builders are free and if you want to design an email form you should consider the different features.

 

Today users are about interaction.  They enjoy getting newsletters and notifications about sales and things you are offering on your online business.  In addition, an online web form on your site is the best way to generate emails so you can increase your business and create hype about the products and services you offer.

 

One of the most important features you should consider in a form builder is that the software is free.  You don’t need to hire a professional to build your forms for you.  You can build your forms yourself and you shouldn’t have to pay a dime to design an email form.  There are form builder software packages you can purchase but there is really no reason to spend the money when you can get it for free.

 

Many of the features you should consider in a form builder tool so you can build a web form include drag and drop support, database storage, data validation, easy to use, Google gadgets, sharing data, full customization, survey tools, no learning curve, secured web form , and more.

 

The most important features of a web form builder are that you need to ensure it is easy to use.  You don’t have to commit to a specific piece of software so you should be sure that it is easy to learn.  If you assign an employee the job of building the email form and then that person leaves, you don’t want to have to pay for training every time you lose an employee.  Ease of use is very important.

 

There are many features you can use with a form builder that will allow you to integrate many different types of forms into your online business.  You can build an email form or a web form very easy by dragging and dropping data into the tool.