Simple steps to create contact form in blogger (Sep 2010)

So, you started your own blog. You created it on the Blogger platform. You write about your favourite things, started having traffic, and now feel that you need to better interact with your visitors. It is time for you to create a contact form for your blog.



Before continuing, there are a couple of things you should know: usually, contact forms use the mail() function to send emails. As your blog is created on the Blogger free platfom, you do not have access to the mail() function. This is why you need to use an external service to create and run your contact form. We will teach you how to use a free 123ContactForm account to create the form you need for your blog.
Please follow these steps, in about 5 minutes, your Blogger page will have a brand new contact form!

1. Sign-up for a 123ContactForm account.
2. Login your new 123ContactForm account.
3. Click the Create new form link.
4. Enter a name for your form (eg: Blogger Contact Form) and your email address in the first 2 input boxes, then click the Save Form button in the bottom of the page.
5. You are on the Edit Fields page. Click the Next link.
6. You are on the Theme page. Click the Next link.
7. You are on the Get HTML code page. Go to the Option 2 part of the page, click the Select text button. Press CTRL+C and now the contact form HTML code is in your Clipboard.

That's all you have to do on the 123ContactForm site, now go to your Blogger blog and do the following:

Login your Blogger account and click the New Post button --->Edit pages--->New page

Once you opened the new page enter your title click on Edit HTML here you need to copy your 123contactform account code and click on publish.


Now you can add this page in to sidebar for this go design--->click on add a gadget--->Add page here you can select your contact page link in your blog sidebar