Web Form Creation Archive (Page 3)

Form Builder Usability Updates

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

We’re rolling out a few updates to the Form Builder today that we hope will make your experience a little easier and more productive.

Changes to page creation.
New look for read-only fields.
Change to free-text validation.

Changes to Page Creation
One of these updates should make creating multi-page forms simpler. Previously, you had to create at least two pages [...]

Getting the most out of your forms: A few more thoughts

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

What does your form communicate?
As mentioned in previous posts in this series, web forms are one of the primary ways you can communicate with your clients or customers. As such, the tone of the interactions on your form establish the tone of the relationship as much as do the words on the form. Here are [...]

Tutorial: How to Create a Salesforce Web-to-Lead Form

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Learn how to create a better web-to-lead form and collect the submitted data in Salesforce.

Getting the most out of your forms: Writing compelling forms

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

What is good form writing?
In previous posts in this series, we’ve covered a little bit about how to make your forms work well for your respondent, but there’s more to a good web form than just making sure the form is easy to use. The form is about communicating with your respondent, not just about [...]

Getting the most out of your forms: Usability Part 2

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

What else makes a good form?
As a continuation of last week’s post, today I’m writing about a few more usability issues you might want to consider as you build your forms.
Choose the correct input format
When you use the Form Builder, you can choose from many different types of answers. Before you choose your answer type, [...]

Getting the most out of your forms: Usability Part 1

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

What makes a good web form?
The concept of a form is simple and timeless: your respondents have information, and you want to collect that information. However, everyone has had experience with a poorly designed form at some point. We want to help you and your visitors avoid the same mistakes. In this four-part blog series, [...]