For this week's assignment, we built two online forms and added them to our Web sites. We used JotForm for the first form, which is an app for building online forms, and then we built the second one from scratch by entering the HTML code directly into the page. My experience with JotForm was really positive. I had never heard of JotForm before, and I was really surprised by how easy it was to create a form and add all the required fields using the app. It seems that they have upgraded the system though since the tutorial video on Blackboard was first published. They now have a source code button, which allows you to easily copy the code and add it to your forms page. On the tutorial, I believe the instructor went to another screen to get the code. I was also looking at the Survey Tools options, and I noticed that you can add fields such as star rating reviews, scale rating, grading review, etc. Under "Power Options" you can add password protected fields and payment options, which I thought it was really amazing.
Building the form from scratch was not that hard for me because I have built online forms before in previous classes. It was a good way to refresh my memory though on all the different input tags.
I received very good feedback on my site. Moses gave me a very good idea on how to improve the form by adding first and last name fields to it in order to identify who provided the feedback.
All in all, it was a fun and educational assignment. It was great to know there is such a great app out there for building online forms.
I was also amazed about JotForm.com I can remember the days of CGI scripts that were hard to install in case you did not have any programming experience. Good post!
ReplyDeleteI was also impressed by JotForm. I kept thinking "there has to be a catch, there's no way it can be this easy (and free)". A real eye-opener.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you and Moses that adding a required first/last name field is a good idea: I received some nice feedback but in some cases had no idea who it was from! And of course it prevents (or at least diminishes the likelihood) of spam and flames (not that anyone in the class would do this, I mean out in the "real world").
I wasn't originally looking forward to the subject of HTML forms, but it turned out to be one of the highlights of the class for me.