Did I tell you I hate making web forms? Think I did some time back. Every time there’s a form to be made, I would die a little inside first. Thankfully there are much easier ways now.

GoogleDocs - One of the easiest ways to get a quick and dirty form up. I also like this method because all the responses are entered into a spreadsheet. This can be very handy for data that you need to further manipulate or analyze. Here’s a quick video to show you how.

cformsII for WordPress - This is one of the multitude of reasons I love using WordPress. One of my favorite, amazing plugins is cformsII. They call it a contact form but oh boy you can do so much more than contact forms.

• You can create forms where people can upload files for you.
• Forms that span multiple pages
• Limit form submissions - great for contests
• Tell-a-friend forms also ‘included’

Just overall a

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Continuing yesterday’s post, today I’ll share a few things I’ve learned, how to make your site (or blog) display well on tiny screens. There are so many different mobile browsers. If you think designing for computer screens is difficult, mobile browsers are even more challenging. I don’t profess to
be a pro at this. So, if there’s anything inaccurate here, please do point it out and share your expertise.

For blogs:

If you’re using WordPress… I hope you are, then this is super easy. Simply install the WordPress Mobile plugin. This plugin displays a mobile version of your blog/site and also allows you to blog through your mobile browser.

The Good: I found the ability to blog from my Palm TX very convenient. I also liked the clean simple lines of the mobile display. It is quite customizable using CSS but didn’t spend very much time on it.

The Bad: In order to publish via the browser, you enter your blog

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