Easy Ways To Make Web Forms

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 very pleasant to use plugin. Drag and drop, point and click interface makes this a breeze.

Easy Internet Survey –  this is a survey system, but you can definitely use it to create forms and collect data too. Making a submission form is simple. Just create the campaign, enter your questions and grab the code. If you’re in a hurry, it even hosts the form for you so all you need to do is send people a link.

The nice thing about Easy Internet Survey is if you are running a one question “Ask me” campaign. You can do a keyword report and find out what are the common words/keywords people use. Very useful to know what language your target market regularly uses and also to re-use them on your marketing material.

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13 Comments

  1. Jack on April 2, 2008 at 2:48 am

    Cool Plugins Lynette,

    Could you do a list of your top 10 Essential Plugins.

    And then do a list of your top 10 ‘Accessory’ plugins.

    (there – I just helped you out with two new blog topics)
    Thanks
    Jack



  2. Jack on April 1, 2008 at 10:48 pm

    Cool Plugins Lynette,

    Could you do a list of your top 10 Essential Plugins.

    And then do a list of your top 10 ‘Accessory’ plugins.

    (there – I just helped you out with two new blog topics)
    Thanks
    Jack



  3. Lynette on April 2, 2008 at 3:17 pm

    Hi Jack, thank you for those blog post ideas 🙂 I will take your advise and write them up.



  4. Lynette on April 2, 2008 at 11:17 am

    Hi Jack, thank you for those blog post ideas 🙂 I will take your advise and write them up.



  5. Thomas Mullooly on June 1, 2008 at 1:32 pm

    Hey Lynette!

    I just watched this video on LifeHacker…how cool is that? And I can definitely see the value in that.

    Now, if you can help me break free from Outlook 2007 and Business Contact Manager (always crashing), I’d be eternally grateful!

    Tom
    http://www.mullooly.net/wordpress



  6. Thomas Mullooly on June 1, 2008 at 9:32 am

    Hey Lynette!

    I just watched this video on LifeHacker…how cool is that? And I can definitely see the value in that.

    Now, if you can help me break free from Outlook 2007 and Business Contact Manager (always crashing), I’d be eternally grateful!

    Tom
    http://www.mullooly.net/wordpress



  7. Lynette on June 1, 2008 at 5:35 pm

    @Thomas! Good to see you again. Isn’t that cool about Lifehacker? Just found out myself too. I have not (thankfully) been married to Outlook for any length of time, so I don’t know it well enough to recommend alternatives for you. Maybe we can talk about that one on one some time.



  8. Lynette on June 1, 2008 at 1:35 pm

    @Thomas! Good to see you again. Isn’t that cool about Lifehacker? Just found out myself too. I have not (thankfully) been married to Outlook for any length of time, so I don’t know it well enough to recommend alternatives for you. Maybe we can talk about that one on one some time.



  9. Kim on June 3, 2008 at 3:11 pm

    Great video, Lynette. Thanks for sharing with us.



  10. Kim on June 3, 2008 at 11:11 am

    Great video, Lynette. Thanks for sharing with us.



  11. Lynette on June 6, 2008 at 2:14 pm

    @Kim welcome hope it’s useful.



  12. Lynette on June 6, 2008 at 10:14 am

    @Kim welcome hope it’s useful.