Website Forms - 13 tutorials, resources, tools & services

Barely get by today without a web form. Be it so, the typical contact form, a form to order a newsletter.

In this paper, I present you with various form generators, tools, resources, tutorials on the subject of Site Forms.

With this arrangement, there will soon find it easy to create your own contact form.

Introduction

Web forms can assist them in touch with your online visitors to be offering as opposed to a simple e-mail link to the advantage that the required information solicited and required information can be defined.

In the era of CSS-enabled browsers, Ajax and Javascript libraries here has much improved. Today it is possible to make very user-friendly forms and spice.

What is needed for a functioning website form?

One question you have asked me often in recent weeks by e-mail :-).

In principle, a site-form consists of two areas:

First The actual form - defined in HTML, CSS, and possibly designed by Advanced functionality using Javascript functions (eg jQuery)

Second An evaluation script - written in a server-side scripting language (eg PHP, Perl). This script is used to change the on-line user input in the form to submit information to the web site operator.
Through such a script, the acquired data, for example by e-mail be sent to the web site operator and / or stored in a database.
(Please note this will be supported in your hosting package and a corresponding scripting language so that the evaluation must be working!).

Form Generators

The WWW, you will find a variety of online form-generators which allow you to "zusammenzuklickern" Your personal contact.

First www.jotform.com

A truly successful form builder with an incredible number of functions. Using drag and drop a form can be compiled individually. Special survey and payment fields are supported. In the power tools, special input fields such as captcha, auto-complete, Date / Time, etc. selected. Style properties can be tailored to your needs or simply use the provided templates.
How do you integrate the resulting form you choose: Whether or with full source code as a JavaScript call. The integration into various CMS systems is supported.

Try it a try - I think this Form Builder leaves little to be desired.

Second www.formular-generator.de

This form generator allows you to create a simple contact form. You have the possibility to choose from 9 pre-defined fields. Captcha code is supported on request. At the end you receive HTML and PHP code you can copy via cut & paste into your website.

Third www.phpform.org

When the HTML form builder pForm you opt for a pre-form color and then put in the second Step your individual form from different field types together. The properties of each field can be defined individually. Your form is completed after you save it off. Then you can download the form you create a zip archive and embed it into your website.

Form Services

Besides the form-generators, there are now a variety of services form. Similar to the Form Generator, you can contact forms, surveys, etc. put together. The difference is that you do not need scripts for analysis as this is also part of the service. In your website you only bind the link to the generated form and everything else is handled by the Forms service.

Please make sure that most of these services (at least from a certain number of forms, contacts, etc. page pointed) are free of charge.

Here is a small selection of such services form:

First www.wufoo.com

Second www.icebrrg.com

Third www.formstack.com

4th www.appnitro.com

5th www.formsite.com

Other links can be found under "Resources" section of this article.

Tutorials

Who wants to learn how to do it "by hand". Find useful tips & tricks tutorials in the following:

1st A Fancy AJAX Contact Form

2nd Create a Search Form with CSS3 and jQuery

3rd Make your forms beautiful with CSS

4th Designing simple & beautiful CSS based forms

5th 10 Incredible Tips for Web Forms!

6th Prettier Accessible Forms

7th Clean and pure CSS FORM design

8th Have a Field Day with HTML5 Forms

9th How to Validate Forms in both sides using PHP and jQuery

10th Web Form Validation: Best Practices and Tutorials

11th Prettier design a web form with CSS 3

12th Rethinking Forms in HTML 5

13th Improved Current Field Highlighting in Forms

Resources

First 10 plug-in useful form to enhance your HTML validation

Second 13 Best Web Form Design Tutorials and Resources

Third 20 jQuery Plugins to Enhance Forms and Tutorials

4th Beautiful Contact Forms for your inspiration

5th 20 + Resources and Tutorials for Creating Forms using CSS

6th 10 + jQuery tutorials for working with HTML forms

7th Forms on Mobile Devices: Modern Solutions

8th Web Form Design: Modern Solutions and Creative Ideas

9th 13 Hand-Picked Web form Resources for Developers

10th 12 Excellent jQuery Plugins for Enhancing Forms

11th 8 Useful Online Form Builder