Web Forms for Blogger

Hosts 26% of the total 164 million blogs worldwide (TECHNORATI STATE OF THE BLOGOSPHERE 2011)

11% of bloggers earn their primary income from blogging

82% are using Twitter and nearly half of them link to it

9 out of 10 bloggers use Facebook for promotion

25% are using mobile devices for blogging

(INVESP AND TECHNORATI)

search box

[Essential blog interface elements]

navigation menu

About page / author’s bio box

contact page

footer (useful links)RSS feed & newsletter subscription

posts pages

web forms

[Forms]

Embedded forms for Blogger are excellent tools to:

[… give people a handy way to get in contact with you without disclosing your email address publicly

… keep your communication spam-free

… encourage reader-author interaction, present a strong call-to-action

… convert casual visitors into engaged audience for your blog]

[Types of forms for Blogger]

o Contact Us & Feedback form

o Newsletter subscription

o Request-a-quote (for advertising or extra services – e.g. copywriting, proofreading, design)

o Order form for e-commerce

o Event registration

Forms use server-side scripts (PHP, ASP.Net) for submitting data and sending it via email

Blogger does not support such scripting natively

mailto () function is inaccessible

No widgets for build forms available

The only way to create & run a form for Blogger is to use an external 3rd party service that provides the needed scripts

IMG: STORYDESTINATION.COM

[Web form generators]

What to seek for?

o Intuitive interface

o CSS support for styling the form design

o Solid security options

o Customizable email notifications

“123ContactForm has provided me a wonderful service,

which made me breath easy about the forms on my website.”Merog Chaitanya @ merogdesign.com

[How-to guide – create & embed a form on Blogger using 123ContactForm ]

1. Log in/sign up to www.123contactform.com.

2. Go to your dashboard and choose Create New Form, then select the form you need (contact form, order form, survey etc).

3. Edit your form in the drag & drop workspace. You can add fields of various types, change labels, rearrange elements. Make sure you include extra field validation where necessary.

4. Next step – Settings for your form. You can create custom notifications in the event of form submission and set email addresses to receive submitted content (even multiple ones). Also, at this point you can make advanced but easy design customizations. Choose and adapt a color theme for your form and tweak the CSS if needed, to make it match the exact look and feel of your blog. Multi-language translations can be used within the form. For order forms, you can set payment integration with either PayPal, Google Checkout or Authorize.Net.

5. Last action: Publish your form on the blog. Copy the code that has been generated for your form and paste it onto a new page of your blog, which you can entitle Contact Us, Feedback or however you like.

Here it is – your brand new form, in just the right place and ready to use!

[Are you social? So are we!]

You can employ 123ContactForm for a multitude of form building tasks

beyond the boundaries of Blogspot.

o Create forms for your Facebook page

o Synchronize web forms with Twitter for a broader cover

o Go mobile with your forms and surveys!

123ContactForm – create your web forms as easy as 1-2-3!

http://www.123contactform.com/contact-form-for-blogger.html

[About 123ContactForm]

123ContactForm is an online form builder for web and mobile that serves a wide range of customers, with a focus on small businesses, blogs and web design agencies.

At present, thousands of websites and blogs across the world run live forms created with 123ContactForm.

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