Author: Tiara Rea

If you are following along in this LPQuicksite Tutorial Series on Adding Advanced Website Features to your LPQuicksite, you are likely already enjoying your new LPQuicksite, sending emails to keep in touch with friends and business associates or customers, or maybe you took a vacation and set up an auto-reply.

Now it’s time to add another advanced option – a contact form. Contact forms are useful for many things, which I’ll get to shortly.

Remember, this is Part 4 of the 5-Part tutorial series, so if you have any comments, suggestions, questions, or recommendations for future segments, please just let us know:

• Adding Counters
• Creating Email Accounts
• Enabling Auto Responders
• Adding Contact Forms
• Forwarding Email

So what are contact forms and why do you need them? In all honesty, contact forms are not a necessity for your website. But the reason I bring them up is because many webmasters prefer an automated form where their customers can order intangible services (like website design and technical installations), get a quote for services provided, or as an order form for something specialized from your normal products.

That said, a lot of customers just like the look of contact forms too! They’re very clean and elegant and appear much more professional than just adding your email address to a blank page.

These contact forms send the information within directly to your email, too, so they are wonderfully easy. So let’s create and insert one!

4. Adding Contact Forms

First, you’ll need to find the appropriate form you’d like to use for your website. Here are two recommendations, but you can also do your own research via search engines to find the best form for you:

A 100% Free Service with lots of choices for your forms. Very simple to use and very quick to signup and get started!

Another 100% free service that boasts getting your form built in 8 minutes or less. Very easy setup and a really cool, fluid editor. The only downside is that this one shows ads every time your form is submitted.

For the purposes of this tutorial, we’ll use 123ContactForm, but you can really use any creator you’d like.

Login to your 123ContactForm account and click on “Create New Form”:

The Basics of Your Form

On the first part, you’ll need to give your form a name, tell it where to send the responses, and even use a special “Thank You!” page once a customer has entered information. For example, here is the top half of my answers:

You can change any of this information and you can leave blanks #3 and 4 alone if you don’t need them, as they are completely optional. Next, complete the rest of the form as necessary:

I’d recommend, if you’re short on time to just ignore these advanced settings. Also, choose the “Show Image with Letters and Numbers (100% Spam Proof)” option for handling queries, as that will ensure your inquiries are 100% legitimate.

Save your form!

The next page will then ask you to setup the form questions or the fields you want your customers to fill out. For example, you’ll want fields like Name, Email Address, and perhaps Website URL, Phone Number, or other things. 123ContactForm will automatically prepare a form with Name, Email, Subject, and Message fields:

If you want to add more fields, simply choose a name for the field and type of field (for example, Text is a small text box) and click Add:

Repeat this process until you have all the fields you’d like on your form. Once you’re done, click “Next” and you can copy the HTML code from the second box and paste it into LPQuicksite!

To paste this HTML code, login to LPQuicksite, create the page you want the form to show up on, and then click on the Source button in the design menu. You can paste the HTML here and your form will then show up once you Save and Publish!