Creating a professional looking contact page

Nothing says el cheapo quicker than a somebody@somedomain.com email link on a web page. You want a contact form that the visitor can fill in and submit. You don't want to leave your real email address around for a bot to pick up. There is no built-in contact form widget in blogger (yet). The best thing that I have come across is Kontactr.

What is Kontactr ?

Kontactr is a free online contact form provider. You have to sign up and they will provide you with the HTML / script to embed on your blog.

How I use Kontactr.

I took the HTML embed widget from their web site and placed the code into a post. Click here to see what the kontactr widget looks like on my blog.



Other options ?

You might have read on the web somewhere about using Google Docs to embed a contact form on your blog. I think that if you use the Google Docs method you are going to open yourself up to abuse. The Kontactr solution provides you with a secure CAPTCHA protection (preventing an automated attack) which the Google Docs method does not provide. Plus the Google method requires quite a bit more effort to install.

The Future ?

I have a feeling that Google will provide a nice blogger widget for contact forms in the future. All that they have to do is to use a comment post form and instead of posting it to the blog, send it via email.