Create free website contact form without sharing your email address
Posted on August 22, 2007 at 9:21 pm
One of the most annoying things posting your email address online so that people can contact you is the fact that within a few days you’ll start getting hundreds, if not thousands of spam messages! But for anyone who owns a web site or blog, it may be essential that your users can contact you at any time. It would also be great if you could have people off social networking sites like MySpace, Bebo, etc. contact you without getting spammed.
Thankfully, there are new services that help solve this problem, one being Contactify, a free service whereby people can contact you without revealing your personal email address. Also, it eliminates spam because it requires the user to fill out a form and enter a code to stop spam robots. You are either provided with a Contactify link for your own private contact form or you can embed the form onto your own web site!
After you sign up for the service, you’ll receive your own Contactify link, which will basically be http://www.contactify.com/XXX where XXX is a unique number. The form will look like this:
People can then contact you by simply clicking the link! You can create as many Contactify links as you like, each going to a different email address. If you don’t want your users having to come to the Contactify site, you can put in your link number and a widget will create the code, which you can then copy and paste anywhere on your web site.
Using this method, you can change the message that users see when they submit the form. You can also change the appearance of the contact form using the CSS style sheet, but this requires you creating your own, so it’s more for the tech savvy.
If you’re on TypePad, Blogger, Netvibes, or Pageflakes, there is already code specific for those sites that you can use.
Of course, you can always log back in to change the destination email address without having to paste in new code. You can also have the contact form display your name or business name instead of your link number.
Enjoy!
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Zoho creator does a better job. You don’t need a address like contactify.com/XXX. Instead you just insert code on any page you want like yourdomain.com/contact or in any blog post.
I put the code on my website bible-tube.com but it did not work? Thank you fabien
This is really great! I was spammed to death on my last website when I stupidly put my email address on all the pages. I’ve learned my lesson! I really like this contact form.