Sunday, 13 December 2009

Create a Contact form with Google docs

Google offer various tools for internet users . One of them is Google Docs . This is a tool for working and sharing document online . You can also use Google docs for creating form that you can embed it into web page or email .Once someone fill out the form ,data is fed to Google data spreadsheet .
Creating a contact form is a simple application . In this post ,I will tell you how to use Google docs for contact form .
First ,you need a google account ( it can be a gmail account ,blogger account ... account of any service offered by google ) ,go to docs.google.com and login .
Here is the screen after login



Click on Create new ,choose Form from drop-down list
here is the screen of Creating Form


Choose add item for adding form elements ,to make a contact form ,you need at least 4 item : three text-boxes for Full name , email ,and website ,and a paragraph text-box for the content .
The form after adding look like this :


When you finish creating form elements ,click on More Action ,choose Embed .You will get a script .
Go to Blogger ,Create a post ,set the date for this post a day in past . Click on edit HTML of post editor ,paste the script you got from Google docs into editor window ,and publish this post .
Ok ,now you got a contact page for your site .
To see the data collected from contact form ,you just need to login Google docs and click on the form name you created . A spreadsheet (like MS access or MS Excel ) will appear and show you the data from contact form .
This post only show you a simple application of Google docs , in fact ,you can make a form for survey ,or a form for mailinglist through this .
Hope this post useful for you .Enjoy it !^^
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5 comments:

  1. nice one but i prefer from contactr......
    sends mail to directly your mailbox

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  2. @Thangaraju.S : I will write a post on this as soon as possible . Thanks for comment

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  3. k fine..
    one more important request
    My blog was blocked by google and I got mail like that" Your blog at http://paisavassool.blogspot.com/ has been reviewed and confirmed as in violation of our Terms of Service for: SPAM. In accordance to these terms, we've removed the blog and the URL is no longer accessible." What i do plssss send me reply as soon as possible..

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  4. @Thangaraju.S : At this situation ,why don't you contact Google blogger team for more ? I think contacting to Google Blogger team is the best solution . If you are lucky ,they can recover your blog .

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