How really important the 'contact us' or 'feedback' form of your website? Well, that mainly depends on the type of website you own and the type of your business you have. If your business and/or website requires to keep communicating with your visitors and customers, then I'd say your contact us or feedback form is even more important than most of the other pages. New visitors will often try to send a line to get reply. When a frustrating customer, impressed visitors or occasional web surfer has no other way to communicate you, your contact us and other forms placed in the website is the only gateway.
First thumbs of rule, make the form compact. There is nothing annoying than filling up a series of questions or writing lines merely to send a complaints or feedback. As a website owner place you in the visitors position. You never like to fill up forms online unless it's a University admission form or Government agency form that is have no other alternative than filling out. So making the form minimal is the most important thing. Second important thing is the design and functionality of the form. How frustrating it would be if a happy customer tries to send you his/her positive feed back and finds that after filling forms and writing, the form does not work! Another important aspects is the form validation.
Net surfers unintentionally mistype their personal information; lets forget the malicious users who are trying to make your life a bit more miserable by using the spam form submission. A nice design gives the first impression and for the form it's even true. If the font size and form fields are boring looking, there is a god chance that people would give second thought before actually filling it up. Following are some of the cool designed forms I found around. If you already have a contact us form with the primitive design or planing to add one, check out this great looking forms and pick yours one to recommend your web designer (Or get inspired if you are a designer yourself) :
1. http://christiansparrow.com
2. http://vimeo.com
3. https://twitter.com
4. https://quoterobot.com
5. https://mailchimp.com/signup
6. https://carbonmade.com/signup/whoo
7. http://grooveshark.com
8. http://www.svn2ftp.com/contact-svn2ftp
9. http://shylands.com/explore/contact
10. http://robo.to
First thumbs of rule, make the form compact. There is nothing annoying than filling up a series of questions or writing lines merely to send a complaints or feedback. As a website owner place you in the visitors position. You never like to fill up forms online unless it's a University admission form or Government agency form that is have no other alternative than filling out. So making the form minimal is the most important thing. Second important thing is the design and functionality of the form. How frustrating it would be if a happy customer tries to send you his/her positive feed back and finds that after filling forms and writing, the form does not work! Another important aspects is the form validation.
Net surfers unintentionally mistype their personal information; lets forget the malicious users who are trying to make your life a bit more miserable by using the spam form submission. A nice design gives the first impression and for the form it's even true. If the font size and form fields are boring looking, there is a god chance that people would give second thought before actually filling it up. Following are some of the cool designed forms I found around. If you already have a contact us form with the primitive design or planing to add one, check out this great looking forms and pick yours one to recommend your web designer (Or get inspired if you are a designer yourself) :
1. http://christiansparrow.com
2. http://vimeo.com
3. https://twitter.com
4. https://quoterobot.com
5. https://mailchimp.com/signup
6. https://carbonmade.com/signup/whoo
7. http://grooveshark.com
8. http://www.svn2ftp.com/contact-svn2ftp
9. http://shylands.com/explore/contact
10. http://robo.to
