Need a contact form

I really need to create a contact form, but usually it requires me to install or download software. Where could I found a better way to have it?

 

Codecanyon.net is your best choice.

 

Check out Jotform.com ... I have been using them for a signup form and am very happy with the service and ease of constructing forms. It's really feature rich and you can use it for free up till 100 submissions.

 

Your question just begs more questions, and ... well... doesn't entirely make sense.

If you don't / can't "download or install software" how are you expecting ANY website to do a blasted thing? That part ALONE is a real head scratcher.

What do you want that form to do? Send as a e-mail? Integrate to a contact system like Goldmine? Use a in-house DB?

Assuming the e-mail route so as to help with spam filtering and/or box sorting, you WILL need some sort of software installed on your server to handle the output of the form -- OR you will have to go with some third party system (like jotform as @24Hours suggested) to send that form to.

PERSONALLY I dislike most of the third party off-side form handlers (like jotform -- their code is such a mess I'd like to go all "fight club" with it's developers) as they are usually chock full of scripttard bull, are inaccessible disasters of how not to write HTML, and built by people who generally don't seem to know enough about HTML or CSS to be creating tools like that.

A simple HTML and PHP form handler setup isn't exactly rocket science. I have a small-ish form handler that if you show me the site, and tell me what fields you want the user to be able to send, I could toss together a working example for you pretty quick. You would still have to have PHP on the back-end, but again if that's a deal breaker, good luck even having a website these days.

 

Thank you. I will look upon your suggestion. Meanwhile, I have found a nice site, webformmaker.com , which is simple and works nice.

 

Sadly, that webformmaker is PRECISELY the type of crap "has no business making code for other people" nonsense I was talking about... in the classic "if you don't know what's wrong with this"

<table bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<tr valign="top">
 <td nowrap>
 <font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000000">Name</font><font color="#FF0000">*</font></td>
<td><input type="text" name="FieldData0" value="" size="30"> <img src="http://www.webformmaker.com/err.php?id=84576" style="border:none;" alt=""></td>
</tr>

<tr valign="top">
 <td nowrap>
 <font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000000">E-Mail Address</font><font color="#FF0000">*</font></td>
<td><input type="text" name="FieldData1" value="" size="30"> <img src="http://www.webformmaker.com/err.php?id=84577" style="border:none;" alt=""></td>
</tr>

<tr valign="top">
 <td nowrap>
 <font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000000">Subject</font><font color="#FF0000">*</font></td>
<td><input type="text" name="FieldData2" value="" size="30"> <img src="http://www.webformmaker.com/err.php?id=84578" style="border:none;" alt=""></td>
</tr>

<tr valign="top">
 <td nowrap>
 <font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000000">Message</font><font color="#FF0000">*</font></td>
<td><textarea name="FieldData3" cols="30" rows="10"></textarea><br> <img src="http://www.webformmaker.com/err.php?id=84579" style="border:none;" alt=""></td>
</tr>

Code (markup):

sort of way... Anyone who would create a webform that way needs a good slap across the face with a wet trout; tables for layout, no labels, no fieldsets, zero separation of presentation from content, and a general "accessibility, what's that?!?" attitude that pretty much means the developers of that tool need to do the world a favor, back the **** away from the keyboard, and take up something a bit less detail oriented like macramé.

That was crappy code in 1997, it's invalid code as of 1998, and has no business on any website written after 2003. It's stuff like this that people are dumber for even having it exist and blindly using the code from it.

I really pity people too green to realize how badly garbage like that is ****ing you.