Saturday, December 12, 2009

myContactForm review

I've seen a lot of comments about myContactForm, some of them positive, others negative, so I decided to test their form generator, and see how it works. I find the site's layout a bit oldish, but this is not very important, as what I dont' like others might like very much :) Maybe getting a new layout (how EmailMeForm did) would boost their business. But let's go to the functionality of myContactForm.

The first thing that surprised me was the long wizard that you must use to create a simple form. It requires 14 (?!) steps. Another thing was that you are required to enter a page where to redirect the user after the submission. What if I ask my friends by email to fill this form, and I don't have a "thank you" page? This should be optional, in my opinion.


I liked the way they let you customize the form layout - a lot of settings, you can even alternate the background color of the form questions. This would be even nicer with a real-time preview... It's nice that you can easily customize the error messages, received by the user if the form is not entirely filled, or the email address is invalid. Surprisingly, using Captcha is not an option for Free users, but only for Premium users ($29.99/year). The Premium membership is cheap, but the features list is quite poor compared to the competition. I am sure their features list offers enough to create simple forms, but nowadays the top form generators offer awesome features like Paypal order forms or multi-page forms.

That's all, I would say myContactForm has potential, but it is not developed enough to offer the same things as other sites in this niche.

1 comment:

  1. Good day. I'm the creator of myContactForm.com. We recently launched a new version of the service which fixes a few of the items your blog is complaining about. In addition, we'll be rolling out Paypal integration in the first quarter of 2012. Considering the fact that our service is 4 times cheaper than 123contactform, our feature list is quite good.

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