Creating a Google Form and using on a Blog.

On a e-commerce blog, it is quite common to place an Order or an Enquiry form somewhere as part of your blog. This provides a way for you to capture the details of your prospective customers and an avenue for them to send to you a query.

A sample Enquiry Form would look like this:

This is done on Google Form on Google Docs. I have to say that Google Form is quite flexible as there are a lot of options that can be placed to create a truly customise form document.

1) Creating Google Form

On Google Form, there are 3 basic selections

i) Question Title. This is the query header for the information that is required on the form

ii) Help Text. Any assistance. I would normally leave this blank.

iii) Question Type. This is the type and format of the response. 

iv) Required Question. There are certain queries that are compulsory. You can flag this here.

The information that is captured here goes to a specially created Google Spreadsheet and it is time-stamped. The data can be used if you want to keep in touch with your customers and update them of any new developments.

On the Menu Header, there is a selection for View Live Form. This would display the Google Form in realtime. 

2) Using the Google Form on a Blog.

Once you are happy with the format of the form, we can transfer it to our blog.

On the Google Form creation page, click on the Send Form button on the right hand side and select Embed. This would display the HTML code of the form. Copy this code. 

Go to the blog where you want to place the form.

On the blog menu, select Page > New Page.

At the top left hand corner, select HTML instead of Compose.

Paste the HTML code here. Preview and Save.

And your Enquiry Form is now live.

As this is a static page, you can create an Enquiry or Order button and point it to this static page via simple HTML coding.