Archive for March, 2009

Updated Form Layout – Check if your form is affected

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

In order to make your web forms look as good as possible right out of the box, we made a small change to the layout of forms hosted by FormAssembly.com.

Forms are now centered and their width has been reduced. Here’s a demonstration form using this new layout (it used to look like this).

To minimize any adverse effect to the layout of existing forms, this change only applies to forms created or modified since March 16th. This change also does not affect forms that are hosted on your site, unless the form is displayed through an inline frame.

If your form picked up the new layout but you need to keep the old one, please follow the instructions here. The code snippet you’ll need is the one named ‘Removing the default background on forms hosted directly on FormAssembly.com’.

Do you have any suggestion on how we could keep improving the look & feel of your form? We’d love to hear from you. Please post your ideas here, or on our UserVoice forum.

Thank you.

New: Real-time service status and uptime history

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

We just launched a separate site to report the service status of FormAssembly.com.

It’s status.formassembly.com

You can check the current availability of our service, see historical data on our uptime and access previous incident reports. The data is pulled in real-time from a third-party monitoring service (pingdom.com).

This is also the site you’ll need to visit to track updates if our service becomes unavailable. You may want to bookmark it now.

Thank you and happy St Patrick’s day!