It is not always
realised that it is possible to have a free professional contact form
that is hosted freely on your behalf.
Some
of these contact
form providers show occasional advertisements to your visitors and
others simply offer the service for free in the hope that you will
purchase another service from them.
In
this section we
intend to link you to some free providers of this type of service who
you can access by simply clicking on the links shown below.
You
should already
know what a bad idea it is to simply put an email
tag on your website or contact page, mainly because on its own (
i.e. send
me mail ) it looks
unprofessional and unless you have a good email provider who looks
after your bulk mail (spam) it is also a magnet for email harvesters.
Maybe
you already have
a basic contact form that is provided by your website hosting company?
if so it probably looks something like this.
This
basic contact
form design definitely looks more professional than a simple email link
and is probably serving the basic function it was designed for,
however, the simple contact form
design usually means one or more of the following:
- You
pay a monthly fee
to use it.
- You
are limited to how
many visitors can contact you each month.
- If
you change where
your site is hosted you lose your contact form.
- It
is hosted by
excellent free website services
but it is using up some of your allocated page or bandwidth allowance.
- You
receive regular spam
because the contact form and the email box it is forwarded to has no
spam
security features.
Apart from
our own free
contact form
services we are happy to highlight the following contact form links
which will show you a variety of ways to overcome the above problems
Free
Contact Form
Providers
All
forms: Even
if you don't already have a contact form you can create one freely
online using allforms easy form creator with unlimited submissions. No
programming knowledge is needed because everything is created and
modified using their easy to use interfaces.
Email
Me Form: Works
with any web hosting account and your web hosting server does not need
to be able to run scripts because their server processes the free
form submission on your behalf and then sends you an email while
redirecting the visitor to your thank you web page without the visitor
knowing he left your web site.
FastContact:
Currently offers free
contact forms which include templates, free hosting and free
forwarding. As this is a beta test offer it is possible that
any free accounts you open now will not remain free in the future. That
being said, we personally find their contact forms to be both secure
and very reliable and intend ourselves to continue to use their current
free services.
Kontactr:
is a one-click contact form service that allows you to create your own free
contact form, giving you extra security from spam because your email
address is completely concealed.
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