How To Create An Online Form Or Survey Without Coding

To be clear, I will be frank enough to explain that I had spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to design a web based type of form or survey without writing any eventual code before I finally discovered that it is really not as difficult as I had imagined.

You do not have to employ a programmer, and learn HTML. I tried several tools and the following ones are functional.

Why I Started Looking for No-Code Form Builders

To accomplish my side project, I required a contact form, so I searched all over the internet and all tutorials had common points of copying code snippets and hoping it will work. After that, I found no-code form builders, and it is truly something that transformed everything. It took me 20 minutes to have a professional-looking form.

The point is that in this case, the majority require three types of forms. I will demonstrate to you how you can make each one of them step by step.

Contact/ Lead Generation Form (To receive Business Inquires)

This one is the ideal one when you have a business or when you are a freelancer. My choice of HeyForm is based on the fact that this one is free and modern-looking.

Here’s how I built mine:

Step 1: Create an account in HeyForm (30 seconds to create an account with them, no credit card required)

Step 2: Click on the option of creating a new form by clicking on create new form and selecting the template of contact form.

Step 3: Add you fields- I decided to keep it simple:

• Full Name
• Email Address
• Phone Number (this is optional)
• Message/Inquiry box

Step 4: Customize the design. I also adjusted the colors, which brought it to my brand. All you need to do is to scroll the paint bucket icon and select your colors.

Step 5: Set up notifications. This is very important – in the section of integrations below I linked it with my email in order to receive immediate notifications every time someone completes the form.

Step 6: Press on the Partial publish and use the link. You may incorporate it into your web site or simply provide the Web address.

It consumed 15 minutes on my part. Furthermore, HeyForm also has an AI option in which you can state what you require, and it creates your form. I did not use it due to my preference to control, but it can be used when you need to go fast.

Customer Feedback/ Survey Form (To receive Opinions)

Whenever I required feedback about any product that I was testing, I directly used Google Forms. It is simple, but it does work, and no one is unfamiliar with how to use it.

Here’s my process:

Step 1: To visit forms.google.com and press the large “+ button.

Step 2: Name it a title mine was Quick Product Feedback.

Step 3: Add your questions. I used a mix:

• Multidimensional (“How would you rate this?
• Linear scale (1-5 stars)
• Short answer (“What would you improve?

Step 4: Activate Requirement to the questions which you really require to be answered. I made this experience the hard way as half of my answers were blank.

Step 5: You can change the colors by clicking the palette icon. I understand that Google Forms is not very interesting to view, but it cannot be purple.

Step 6: I created a limit to one answer located in the menu under settings (the gear wheel) to ensure the individuals did not spam me with the same response.

Step 7: Click on send and take the link. Google Forms also allows you to email it directly in case you have a list.

I found one of the tricks, which is to make it go to a Google Sheet under “Responses. This time all of my feedback is automatically collected in a spreadsheet. Makes the analysis of results that easy.

EWF (Registration form to Signups and RSVPs).

In case of events, I required something that would allow me to make payments. Jotform passed the test since it contains more than 5,000 templates and can connect with payment processors.

Here’s what I did:

Step 1: Register a Jotform account (free option will be sufficient with small events)

step 2: Use Search templates: Event registration. I chose one which appeared clean.

Step 3: Customize the fields:

• Name and Email (obviously)
• Number of attendees
• Kind of ticket (are you providing various prices)
• Food limitations (studied that this catering is important)

Step 4: Payment integration. I selected “Add Form Remission” – payment – linked my PayPal. Stripe and Square are also available to you.

Set up conditional logic: Step 5. This was nice, I left it so that in case someone chose VIP ticket, an additional field would appear in which I needed to know what he would like in terms of meal.

Step 6: In setting, I had to check the email confirmations in order to send a receipt to the members upon registration.

Step 7: Publish and share. Jotform provides you with a direct link, QR code or embed code.

The cost program saved me time. Human beings pay when they enroll and I do not need to hunt anyone down in future.

My Experience with Building These Forms.

My personal experience with creating dozens of forms has taught the honesty of this point. I would also overdo it and put 20 fields that no one had to fill in. Now I stick to 5-7 fields max.

In addition, never post your form unless you try it. Once I had posted an event registration form in which the payment button was not working. Embarrassing.

In case you are new to it, you can use Google Forms both in surveys and feedback. It is free, trustworthy and, chances are, you already have a Google account. To a payment or anything with intricate reasoning, that is better managed at Jotform.

The best part? There is no need to learn how to code an online form or a survey anymore, they can do it all themselves. Each type took me less than 30 minutes to go through in order to be published.

Choose the type of form that you require, go through the processes and you are ready. That’s it. It leads to no courses, no tutorials, and simply clicking and slapping together.

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