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Saturday, May 28, 2011

Add contact form in Blogger

For so long, I was searching for a "contact form" gadget in blogger. Very coincidentally I got a clue that there is a method to add a fine contact form in google docs. Here is the step by step info to add the contact form in your blogger.

Prerequisite
  1. You must have google docs with your google account
  2. A blog. Or site
Now look at the screenshots and the captions

    Add contact form in blogger
    Step 00: Open your google docs > Create new > Form
    Add contact form in blogger step 01
    Step 01: Define each field such as name, email, message etc
    Add contact form in blogger step 02
    Step 02: Edit the fields by clicking this icon
    Add contact form in blogger step 03
    Step03: Add each fields carefully. Click "Done"
    Add contact form in blogger step 04
    Step04: In More action > Embed
    Add contact form in blogger step 05
    Step05: Copy the embed link
    Add contact form in blogger step 06
    Step06: Now open blogger and create a new page
    Add contact form in blogger step 07
    Step07: In the EDIT HTML paste the embed link
    Add contact form in blogger step 08
    Step08: Check it in the COMPOSE Mode
    Add contact form in blogger step 09
    Step09: Now publish the page
    Add contact form in blogger step 10
    Step10: Go back to Googledocs and open the file
    Add contact form in blogger step 11
    Step11: Set up Tools > Notification rules
    Add contact form in blogger step 12
    Step 12 : In blogger you can reduce the width.

    In this section please tick against "Any changes are made" and "Email right away" after that "Save"
    Yes you have almost set up the Contact form. Now just check yourself whether it is working or not. If everything works well, you will get a notification in your gmail inbox where the googledocs is associated with.

    3 comments:

    Janelle said...

    Thank you, very helpful and clear instructions!

    Tom said...

    Thanks Janelle. Just check the last screenshot also. The embedded iframe width may be 700 px by default. You can edit the width according to your blog/site design.

    Anonymous said...

    Great tip! I was able to add a "Contact" form. Thanks for your help! :-)

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