Increasingly, you can find a web app for almost any business-related task. From managing your email marketing campaigns to managing and keeping track of your business contacts and interactions, we have lots of places we track data. It can often become a problem getting the right data to the right place with minimum effort. With Formstack, you can do just that for some popular web apps that are often used together.
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As you embark on your online form building journey, there are several things to keep in mind to make sure you create the best online forms possible. Below, we’ve compiled a handy-dandy cheat sheet of best practices to consider when designing your online forms.
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Immanuel Lutheran Church is a mid-size church located in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. In addition to being a church, Immanuel Lutheran is also a school for children from preschool through 8th grade. As computers and technology become more prevalent in religious organizations, they fully recognized the importance of effective web-based communication tools. The church and school needed an easy, user-friendly, cost-effective way to support their membership and reach out into the community they serve. We recently caught up with Dave Brazzle, church Elder, about their use of Formstack.
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With the launch of our web form plugin for WordPress last week, we thought we would begin with some basics on getting your Formstack web forms into your WordPress site. The first one we thought we would tackle is creating a contact form for your WordPress blog or website. Austin has created a quick how-to video that walks you through steps it takes to get a simple contact form on your WordPress blog.
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Let’s face it, WordPress is not just a great blogging platform, it has become an easy Content Management System for small and big businesses alike. That is one of the reasons we are truly pumped to release our new Formstack WordPress Plugin which will allow you to use any of your Formstack web forms with ease in any WordPress site. Our web form plugin for WordPress features:
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The first post in our short series on getting the most out of your everyday forms focuses on that staple of the internet: contact forms. Most contact forms are short and to the point–which is good. However, there are a lot of behind the scenes optimizations that can turn a plain old online contact form into a communications hub for your website.
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We’re starting a short series of blog posts focusing on taking common, and sometimes overlooked, web forms and showing you easy ways to make them much more effective and interactive using Formstack’s online form application. From common contact forms to newsletter sign-up pages, we’re going to show you how to squeeze the most value out of all your online forms.
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It’s very tempting, on a lead generation form, to require users to fill out every bit of information about what they are looking for and what they need from you. While this info would be great to have, the longer your form is, the less likely it is that anyone will fill it out. It’s better to build a basic two-page lead generation form.
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1. Spam – Placing your email address on a contact page allows spam bots to find it and greatly increases the amount of spam you receive.
2. Appearance – A contact form simply looks more professional than slapping your email address on a page. You want your website to look as nice as possible, right?
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I know most of our customers aren’t going to run out and throw up a funny image (LOL) blog, but hopefully you can still come away from this post with an idea or two for your own blog or business. Want to host a contest where users have to send you an image of them using your product? You can use a Formstack form for that. Need a simple (or complicated) contact form for your website? You can definitely use a Formstack form for that. Want to start the next great LOLblog empire? Hey, use Formstack forms and don’t forget to cut me in on the profits!
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