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Great Find: Wufoo — Form-making Tool

July 8, 2006 by Liz 28 Comments

Cat’s in Great Form

Cat Morley isn’t only a supreme designer. She is one curious Cat, for sure. Each week at Tuesday Open Comments Night, she leaves a link that leads to a uselful site or article for us — one she’s found while she’s been surfing. Often during the week she’ll return to shoot me something else she’s discovered. This one, Cat sent for two friends of Successful Blog, Kean and Joe in hopes that they might find it the answer to their quest for a contact form on their blogs.

Great Find: Wufoo

Permalink: http://wufoo.com/

Audience/Topic: Bloggers, small-business owners

Content: Wufoo was released to the public in July 2006. It’s a friendly form-building program that allows users to quickly create a mailing list, a contact form, a marketing survey or even a complete customer management system. Here’s a list of what you can build on their server.

    Contact Form
    Mailing List
    Survey
    Job Application
    Workshop Registration
    Event Calendar
    Account Management
    Customer Management
    Bug Tracker
    Invitations / RSVP
    Online Orders
    Wedding Planner
    Address Book
    Home Finances
    Classifieds
    Personal Journal
    Quizzes / Tests
    Media Collection

Adding class to the picture, Wufoo also provides the power to build a theme for all of your forms and reports. I signed up and made this lovely contact form.

Wufoo provides the code I need to send the answers to the Wufoo server. It was free to make this form and get the code. I would need a $9 subscription to use their server to collect the data. It might tricky figuring out how to use it without a Wufoo subscription on a different server. However, other forms don’t require such a relationship.

You can make three forms for free or buy in a variety of subscription levels — $9/month, $24/month, $69/month, and $199/month. Take the time to check this out. It could be just what you need to add that last dash of professionalism to your business and your brand. To find out more, click the Wufoo logo.

Wufoo

Thanks, Cat Morley, for another Great Find.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Comments

  1. Cat says

    July 8, 2006 at 7:49 PM

    Glad to be of help Liz. Hopefully this will be just what they need, or bring out advice from others.

    Reply
  2. ME Strauss says

    July 8, 2006 at 7:51 PM

    Hi Cat,
    I sure had fun playing with it. The subscription doesn’t seem outrageously for the value that you get. It’s a nice package of features. I hope folks check it out.
    Thanks again for your research. You’re keeper, you know. ๐Ÿ™‚

    Reply
  3. Kean says

    July 9, 2006 at 7:31 AM

    THANKYOU!!!!!!!! Sooo Much! Wow this is awesome, thanks Cat for letting us know.

    -Kean

    Reply
  4. ME Strauss says

    July 9, 2006 at 7:33 AM

    Hi Kean,
    Always keep looking and you’ll find what you’re looking for. Bloggers are very helpful people. ๐Ÿ™‚

    Glad you’re happy.

    Reply
  5. Cat says

    July 9, 2006 at 9:27 PM

    Kean,

    it was my pleasure. I’m a resources hound so when I do stumble across something, I share if it’s relevant.

    And Liz, thanks again ๐Ÿ™‚

    Reply
  6. ME Strauss says

    July 9, 2006 at 9:29 PM

    Cat,
    You did all of the work, I was only the messenger. ๐Ÿ™‚

    Reply
  7. Roger Jennings says

    July 12, 2006 at 1:36 PM

    There’s a more recent and detailed review of Wufoo, including a live data-entry forms and several screen captures, plus links to other AJAXified formbuilders at http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2006/07/wufoo-challenges-infopath-for-form.html.

    Reply
  8. ME Strauss says

    July 12, 2006 at 1:39 PM

    Thanks Roger, especially for including the link. Do you work at Wufoo? If you do, I’d love to talk to you by email.

    Reply
  9. Roger Jennings says

    July 12, 2006 at 4:27 PM

    I don’t work at Wufoo; I’m a .NET developer, book writer, and magazine columnist. My interest in Web-based form-building tools relates to Microsoft’s current emphasis on Windows Live Whatever and how Access 2007+ fits into the picture outlined in Ray Ozzie’s “Internet Service Disruption” Memo (http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2005/11/ray-ozzies-internet-service-disruption.html.)
    –rj

    Reply
  10. ME Strauss says

    July 12, 2006 at 5:19 PM

    Hi again, Roger!
    You’re a most interesting fellow! Send me that email anyway. I’d love to know more.

    Reply
  11. Roger Jennings says

    July 12, 2006 at 6:22 PM

    Hi, Liz,

    The email is roger_jennings[at]compuserve[dot]com.

    Bet you don’t see a lot of CompuServe addresses.

    –rj

    Reply
  12. ME Strauss says

    July 12, 2006 at 6:25 PM

    Hi Roger,
    I’m old enough to remember plenty of people who had them, but you might be the only one I know now who does. ๐Ÿ™‚

    Reply
  13. Chad Horenfeldt says

    July 28, 2006 at 1:26 AM

    Good resource Lizz, I’ll have to try it out.

    Chad

    PS – A potential topic for you as you have like 10 blogs going. ๐Ÿ™‚ What do you recommend – create a website and a seperate blog or create a blog and use this as your main website? I’m trying to get some feedback as to how people think on this.

    Reply
  14. ME Strauss says

    July 28, 2006 at 4:54 AM

    HI Chad,
    Thanks! It does look like it can do some nice things, this little form maker, doesn’t it?

    Interesting question you pose here. It’s the second time someone has asked me about it in a couple of weeks. I’m looking at that very question for a business I’m starting right now. I’m sure hoping that I can base it on a blog — the maintenance of a blog is so much easier. However, the gating factor is the kind of content you’re going to present. If the content on the front page needs to remain static, you might want a webpage with a blog attached.

    Reply
  15. Cat says

    July 28, 2006 at 5:17 AM

    “If the content on the front page needs to remain static, you might want a webpage with a blog attached.”

    Or you could use the static front page plugin

    The static front page plugin for WordPress sticks the ‘home’ page to your front page.

    http://www.semiologic.com/software/

    Reply
  16. ME Strauss says

    July 28, 2006 at 5:19 AM

    Cat,
    I hadn’t heard of that one either. What a perfect solution!!!! I’m going to die, come back as guy, grow up quickly, come down there, sweep you off your feet and marry you!!

    Or else leave all my money, if I ever get any. ๐Ÿ™‚

    Reply
  17. Cat says

    July 28, 2006 at 5:26 AM

    Liz, you say the nicest things ๐Ÿ™‚

    But to tell you the truth, I’ve spent the last oh, months and months researching for the new blog I’m going to launch at the end of August/early September. I have about 50 wp plugins that I’ll try out to see how they work. Everything to automate what I want to do.

    And that’s the secrete to my WP stash. The rest is due to a resources stash I keep adding to daily. I have bookmarks you cannot believe. Handy stuff.

    I started collecting bookmarks about 5 years ago for Creative Latitude, and it’s just snowballed.

    Reply
  18. Cat says

    July 28, 2006 at 5:30 AM

    “A potential topic for you as you have like 10 blogs going. What do you recommend – create a website and a seperate blog or create a blog and use this as your main website? Iรƒยขรขย‚ยฌรขย„ยขm trying to get some feedback as to how people think on this.”

    A blog format was launched several weeks back created to run a range of blogs out of one main blog. If I can find it, I’ll post it here. It’s quite amazing and wonderful if you have a lot of authors.

    Reply
  19. ME Strauss says

    July 28, 2006 at 5:31 AM

    New Book by the famous author, Cat Morley

    “Snowballs Stashed in Borneo” hits NYTimes bestseller list in 2 minutes.

    Sells out at Amazon before it’s even written.

    Book signing tour has people lining up years in advance.

    Reply
  20. Cat says

    July 28, 2006 at 5:54 AM

    “Snowballs Stashed in Borneo”

    Sounds great! Now all I have to get are those Sultan sized royalties ๐Ÿ˜€

    Reply
  21. ME Strauss says

    July 28, 2006 at 5:56 AM

    I’m working on those royalties. How else am I going to get down there for those g&ts ? ๐Ÿ™‚

    Reply
  22. Chad Horenfeldt says

    July 29, 2006 at 3:27 PM

    Thanks Liz, Cat – ggod ideas

    Reply
  23. Angelo says

    August 29, 2006 at 6:17 AM

    There is another online forms builder out there called The Blue Form.
    It features an AJAX style form builder as well as the ability to assign approval workflows to the forms.
    This makes it more of an online process automation / eforms workflow site rather than just a form builder.
    It could be used in most office type environments to automate paper based processed. We are currently trailing it at the company where I work and the reception has been quite good.

    Reply
  24. ME Strauss says

    August 29, 2006 at 6:20 AM

    Welcome, Angelo!
    Excellent. Thank you, for letting us know about it. It sounds like one great find to me. I’ll check it out. I appreciate that you included the link for me and for those reading.

    You know the rule here?

    Now that you’ve said “hello,” you’re not a stranger anymore. You’re a friend.

    Thank you, again, Angelo.

    Reply
  25. Tony Y. says

    January 31, 2007 at 11:45 AM

    Try Nenest.com, which is even better. It has many pre-programmed controls for input fields. And you can create rich text document like Microsoft Word document. Also you can attach files.

    http://www.nenest.com/

    Reply
  26. Igor Pro says

    October 21, 2008 at 1:30 PM

    Let me introduce another one:

    http://www.mytaskhelper.com – it’s a free online database, using which you can create and share online databases.

    Examples of forms is on the main page.

    Reply
  27. Process Automation says

    December 24, 2008 at 1:22 AM

    Excellent Article.

    Nice work !

    Reply

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