Michael Sunarlim

Web Developer, Producer and Internet Marketer

Tools to Build Your Contact Form in Less Than 5 Minutes

When you go to a really cool website and want to contact the person or company who runs it, what is your most preferred method? Email, instant message, social media (Twitter, Facebook), or via the contact form? Either one is good, but for most people contact form would probably the most convenient one.

Few web developers hesitate to include one because they think it will take too much time or effort to make it work, specially if they do not have any server-side programming basics. That is no longer the case, these tools will help you build nice contact form for any project quickly:

Contactable

Contactable is a jQuery plugin designed to make contact/feedback forms simpler and more accessible. This plugin will enable you to create a contact form on any page of a site with minimal effort. I also made a small modification of this great plugin to appear on the right side of the page instead the left, you can check it here.

Wufoo

Wufoo is one of the easiest form builder around. It helps you create contact forms, online surveys, and invitations so you can collect the data, registrations and online payments you need without writing a single line of code. Its free account is more than enough to create basic online forms, but you can easily upgrade to premium plans to fit your needs.

pForm

Similar with Wufoo, pForm comes with an online form builder with simple interface that will help you build forms of any kind. Integration with your existing web page might be a bit more complicated than Wufoo, but still more simple than building a custom form yourself.

MachForm

MachForm is developed by the same company as pForm. It is the server installable version. You have more options like: receive submission and save to database, send entries to email, send autoresponder email, validate inputs, and lot more.

Introducing yomire

yomire

Yomire builds useful components and templates exclusively on the envato network based on beautiful and functional designs, implemented with great care to optimise efficiency and usability.

Our Aim

Be the best seller on the envato network by:

  • timely response to user comments and questions.
  • putting up all of our items’ documentations online as well as offline to allow buyers easy reference to them at all times. Potential customers will also no doubt find this feature useful as they will be able to familiarize themselves with an item’s customisation potential prior to committing to buy.
  • actively update the FAQ section for all our items based on real user comments and questions, whenever appropriate.
  • introduce a section that will always be present in each items’ documentation: Version History. The Version History section will document updates and what each one entail.
  • build a blog containing all new updates of existing items and new item releases.
  • be an active participant in social network sites that we are a member of. Currently, this includes twitter and facebook.

Design Style

  • clean & sophisticated.
  • neutral – We want users to be able to incorporate our components into their exisiting websites or suit their company with very minimal customisation possible.

Coding and Development

  • asset-free – When we create flash components for activeden, we always try not to use assets whenever possible. For buyers, this means more flexible customisation from XML , light resulting SWF file and easier further customisation through the use of actionscript, if required.
  • OOP (Object Oriented Programming) using classes which means highly organised source codes and easy updating.
  • efficient and re-usable classes; in most cases buyers can take our custom utility classes, like scrollers, simple shapes drawing, etc, from our templates and incorporate them into their own projects.

Check out our profile on ActiveDen.