Looking for a better contact form for your site?

Wed, Apr 29, 2009

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One of the essential pieces of a website is the ability for visitors to quickly and easily contact you. Whether you have a really professional website, or a simple blog, this is an important key in making your website work for you. So take a good hard look at your site (from a visitors perspective) and ask yourself:

Do you have a way for visitors to contact you through the website?

Is the contact form easy to find?

Does it allow them to give you as much info as you’d like, without requiring more than they’re comfortable giving?

Be honest with yourself, because if it’s at all difficult for people to contact you, you could easily be losing potential clients. If you don’t have a good “Contact Me” system in place, now’s the time to implement one. If you’re looking for a cheap and easy way to add a form onto your site, check out JotForm.com

JotForm is an easy-to-use web-based form builder. Its intuitive drag and drop user interface makes form building a breeze. Using JotForm, you can create forms, integrate them to your site and collect submissions from your visitors.

Since it’s WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get), it doesn’t require html or programming experience. Great for any of us that aren’t web-designers (hands, anyone?). It works great as a contact form, but you can also use it for:

Client Satisfaction Surveys
RSVP’s to an Event you’re holding
Appointment Scheduling
Document Uploader (if clients are returning documents to you)
And nearly anything else you can use a form for

JotForm’s free account has lots of easy to use features

Features include:

Easy to use WYSIWYG form builder.
Create a form by using 12 pre-set templates or create a new form from scratch.
Add different type of fields – textboxes, text areas, drop down menus, file uploads, radio buttons, check boxes and more.
Edit properties for each field – label, size, description etc.
Include security and payment acceptance features.
Free account limited to 100 submission or responses per month
No third party advertising.
Able to include Thank You and other URL features
Let’s you easily connect to PayPal, Google Checkout, and other payment services to accept payments for events, classes, products, etc.

JotForm is very easy to use, so why not get that contact form up now, while you’re thinking about it?

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