There is a lot to say about the knowledge of making forms for the internet : we have recently covered form making interfaces on applications such as Wordpress and Silverstripe, and this article focuses on JOTFORM and other hosted web service that let its registered users build form, and save them as HTML to be displayed on any website, and processed by a distant platform hosted by the service. Submission can then be sent by email or kept on server databases for access from registered user account. While JOTFORM seems relatively simple compared to competitor FormAssembly’s conditional multiple page infrastructure, it hosts interesting features such as payment gateway processing.

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you’ve heard about web2.0 for years, and you want to go for it ? Well you might have guessed : WEB2.0 is all about user interactivity, and interactivity is all about forms. Making forms is a boring business, requires many different skills : displaying, validating, processing . Obviously what you do with the data is the most important thing , but this article will focus on the 2 first aspects of form making. Among Content Mangament Systems, I have tried two which have a visual form building interface : WordPress with CFORMS plugin and Silverstripe’s userDefinedForm page type.

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Silverstripe’s nice form builder, in its current version, has one big drawback : it doesnot handle translations very well. Coming from a discussion on Silverstripe’s forums, I have decided to manage my own translation solution for UserDefinedForms.

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