FormSpring is an easy to use form builder but sometimes you need some help. Here you will be able to find tips and tricks in building online forms that work for your organization. Whether it is the building a basic contact form or creating a complex order form you can find all the resources you need.
A common mistake we often see people making on their forms is the use of checkboxes instead of radio buttons. If you are asking a yes/no question or any question where you only want one answer, you should never use a checkbox field. The reason for this being that a checkbox field will allow a user to check both “yes” and “no” on your form. A radio button, on the other hand, forces the user to choose only a single response, “yes” or “no”.
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One of the great things about creating a product like ours, is that we are able to put our own form builder to use, and incorporate online forms in our own business. Below are a few ways that we use FormSpring to help our business.
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Many small businesses and nonprofit organizations have turned to blogging as a way to connect with their customers, and as a relatively cheap way to do a bit of online marketing. One of the more popular blogging platforms is WordPress. Many people don’t know that creating a form that works in your WordPress blog is easy with FormSpring. You can create any type of form, a simple online contact form or even an event registration form, and embed that form right within your blog post.
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There may be times when you want to collect a small bit of information on one form and then redirect the user on to a second, longer form to collect more information. On the second form, you don’t want them to have to fill out any of the same info from the first form, so you want to pass on that data from one form to another.
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Sometimes for legal reasons you want users to agree to certain terms and conditions before they submit to your form. In this blog post, we’ll show you a simple way to do this using a basic checkbox field.
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Two questions that we are often asked is the best way to integrate your online forms with your website and how to get the forms to match the “look and feel” of your site.
FormSpring gives you a few different options to integrate your web forms. The first is by using a simple link. Each form that you create in the form builder automatically generates a URL for that form. By using that URL you can easily link the form from anywhere on your site, use the link in an email newsletter or post on third party websites, without having to generate a new form for each instance. When using the URL you can choose a standard template (we offer 6 basic templates) or you can create your template.
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We were asked the other day for tips on how you can use your online contact forms and online lead generation forms in smarter ways to really create value for you and your business. Some of the tips below might seem basic but ofter overlooked by the majority of people who are creating their online forms.
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We often talk a lot about the features and functions within our form builder, but one of the many topics we rarely touch on here is why do you need web forms?
The answer is simple, because it’s an easier way to manage and collect information. Many of our customers are small businesses or nonprofits who were used to collecting information through old fashioned paper forms, Word or PDF attachments, or emails. By collecting information through online forms you are not only making it easier for your customers and website visitors to give you information but you are also making it easier to manage that information you collect for your organization.
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We were very excited in developing the FormSpring iPhone Apps because we knew that with the growth of the iPhone and the many technologies it uses that there would be some very good business uses for both the phone and the apps.
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A powerful feature of FormSpring that many people don’t take advantage of is the ability to place HTML into sections on your forms. Now, just because you don’t know HTML, doesn’t mean you can’t use this feature. Many websites give you embed codes for videos, maps and widgets that you can place on your own site. These embed codes will work on your forms as well, if inserted correctly.
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