Forms are an essential part of any website to collect information from visitors. You may want to have a contact form, have a survey, an order form etc. However if your not a programmer with experience in creating the html forms, saving the inputs to a database, creating admin pages to manage inputs, creating mailers etc. you will be on a though journey! Good news is there are lots of great online tools and plugins you can use to create professional forms without knowing anything about programming and they can typically be integrated seamlessly into your site. Lets take a look at some of the best online form building tools currently available.
Formstack
Formstack is one of the most feature rich online form service providers. They have a great form builder with drag and drop functionality allows you to quickly build your form within any of the popular web browsers available today. Formstack excels in helping you collect, manage, route, and leverage your form’s data via a secure online form. With Formstack, you can store data in their online database, share that data with others via a simple link, export your data in Excel or Word, and use the API. They also provide conditional logic calculation on fields, payment integration, mobile apps and more. Recently they also released a plugin for WordPress that you really need to check out. Combined with the free account you have a great solution for adding forms to your blog or website and it will be free up to a certain level of usage.
jotform
polldaddy
surveygizmo
Wufoo
questionform
surveymonkey
Formlogix
Icebrrg
Formsite
Visitorcontact
Kontactr
Frevvo
PHPform
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I guess WuFoo and Kontactr are most used and they are pretty good. The rest I haven’t even heard of…thanks for sharing!
What does it mean when the name is strike out like jotform and questionform?
http://www.emailmeform.com has great email based forms… very useful tool… free for up to 5 forms too.
Excellent list..thanks for sharing this great tools..
Thank you for a great post
Brilliant all round information on all the site very helpful everyone
This is a good, meaningful content article.Very to that is just finding resouces about this part.It will certainly help my education.
All of these are great form building tools, here is another one that the author might have missed. http://www.pandaform.com, build forms and manage your workflow.
thanks for the tip I will check it out ASAP
Great article, but Forms on the Fly is a new addition! Unlike the other tools with Forms on the Fly it is very easy to set up automated, personalised response meaning it doesn’t just collect info but delivers it too. Have a look!
Great list and thanks for sharing!
Thank you!!
that will help me
IS a very useful tools. thanks for sharing with us
I wanted to add http://www.mobosurvey.com to this list of online form building tools. Mobosurvey helps you quickly create online form/surveys that are accessible from any internet capable devices. Your users can access the same form/survey from their smart phones, tablets, laptops, or desktops at anytime.
Which one is best for a small catalogue with items set up in grid view (horizontally)
with a total
Good post
Hey Lars, very nice collection here. For the sake of updating I wanted to add to the mix a toolset that wasn’t around when this text was written – http://usabilitytools.com/ . It is a toolbox that includes online survey tool and feedback form tool. Importantly, one can also check the usability of the online forms with the Form Tester.
Cheers!
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