A contact form is providing a form-based interface in your site or blog to contact you (the webmaster), it is much more user-friendly than just providing an email address and encourages conversation so you should probably be looking to use one on your site.
Finding a good contact form is not an easy task. While in some cases webmasters could design a simple form, it would be a wiser option to use a contact form via a service which gives you stats regarding the email form and also provides some sort of spam protection( usually in the form of a ‘captcha’ image or a randomly rotated set of questions)
As it took me a bit of time to use the correct keywords to find a suitable service on Google I thought I’ll direct you to a great free service that lets you instantly create a contact form in an easy-to-use control panel.
The service is called EmailMeForm and it lets you create contact forms for free and link to the form on a new window or paste the code of the form to display it within the site. It also provides an excellent spam/automated mail submissions with the captcha image it provides. You can customize the form and include radio buttons, combo boxes, option buttons and so on.
You can also re-direct the form to a ‘thank you’ page once the mail is submitted. As part of their free package they request the user to link back to the EmailMeForm site on your site with a ‘powered by EmailMeForm’ or similar phrase.
You can get your free form(s) here
If you want to use a contact form on a blog EmailMeForm is a great option for a blog too but if you are hosted on a plug-in friendly platform like WordPress you could use separate plug-in which creates the form for your blog. Here are a few contact form plug-ins for the Self-hosted WordPress platform:
Hope this post gave you a solution if you were looking for an Email Form, and as always I’ll be more than glad to hear your feedback!
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Be ware of using emailmeform!!!
One of emailmeform owners, James Salganov, is a dishonest person. He purchased the website from Alexandru Marias, and sold it to Harrison Hung, without paying the money he was to pay to Alexandru Marias.
The conflict between James Salganov ( past owner ) and Alexandru Marias ( developer of the service who has not been paid ) might affect the site badly, as there is a bigh trust issue in the middle
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We are happy to announce a new management team at EmailMeForm.com!
EmailMeForm™ has long been a valued service that allows anybody to create functional web forms on any website. Unfortunately, the previous management had not invested in continual improvement to the EmailMeForm™ service throughout 2009. The lack of a solid working relationship between the past owner and the former head developer lead to a cold war that eventually forced the sale of the site to our dedicated hands.
Not surprisingly, the relationship problems continue to spill over even after the service has already been transferred over to new hands. The new management cannot heal these old wounds. We are already pulling long hours to take EmailMeForm™ to the next level. Most of these improvements are not readily apparent to you as we are working on renovating the foundations of the EMF house.
Regarding privacy issues and your form data: EMF will never abuse or sell this information to Third Parties. The previous owners, who may have copies of the database, are legally liable if this information is inappropriately used. Should an infraction occur, you can be assured that EmailMeForm™ will work toward a resolution.
For more information please visit us at http://www.emailmeform.com/#rogue
Happy Holidays and looking forward to 2010,
EmailMeForm™ Team
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