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 !^^
Create a Contact form with Google docs
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