Free interactive FORMS for your web site

Add interactive forms to your page. Many people don't understand the complicated CGI scripting language that's required for forms. Worse yet, many Web site providers (particularly the free ones) don't give you CGI-bin access anyway. This page offers a roundup of free services that allow you to easily add interactive forms to your site, usually just by following a simple step-by-step process. Another way to add an interactive element to your site is through a guestbook or a message board .

  • FreeForm - You can now add free fill-out forms which E-mail you feedback from your Web site visitors! You do not need to be able to access CGI on your provider's server. You don't even have to know CGI! FreeForm will even generate the HTML for you.
  • Survey9 Interactive Survey Creator - This site offers a free demo of their service, which allows you to create and track surveys on your Web site. Easy to set up. This program automates the entire process from form generation to processing results.
  • Jobvertise.com - This service allows you to easily add job listings to your site. Use their intuitive interface to add, edit or delete jobs listings on your Web site. They store the software and data on their servers, so there is no installation. Jobvertise is also customizable to match your existing Web site.
  • WWW Survey Builder - This free service allows you to set up forms to collect information from your site's visitors. WWW Survey has many possible uses, including Web site analysis surveys, product & service opinion surveys, and employee satisfaction surveys. This service features "unique identifiers," which are used to prevent multiple survey submissions.
  • AnyForm - A free form mailer. You can either install their CGI scripts on your server or use the service provided at their site if you don't have CGI access.
  • Net Votes: add a poll form to your site - This free service allows you to quickly add a interactive polling service to your site. It only takes a few minutes to install. Find out what's on your visitors' minds!
  • Response-O-Matic Form Processor - Here's the deal: first you create your forms in HTML. Then have your form call this service. The information your visitors enter in your forms will be automatically E-mailed to you. There's no coding and no hassles and you don't need to know Perl, Java or have access to your server's CGI bin.
  • Free-Mail - With this free module, you can interact with your visitors by E-mail through your Web site. Free-Mail eliminates the need to use the "mailto:" tag and its associated hassles. It also alleviates the security, cost and implementation concerns of running local E-mail scripts.
  • Form Mail - This is a utility program that collects and organizes information submitted in a form on your home page, then E-mails the results to you. Highly customizable.
  • The Toao HQ - This British site offers a number of interesting free JavaScript-based feedback forms that you can use on your Web site. These include: "Answerme," a form that allows you to conduct polls (with results mailed back to you). There's also "Sendme," a scriptless feedback form and much more.
  • Mailform - This is a CGI program that allows anyone who has a Web page to create submission forms. When the form is filled out, you will receive an E-mail of the complete contents of the form.
  • Web E-mail Lite - Another forms server. Just create your HTML and then when you submit a form to Web E-mail Lite on their server, it will redirect itself back to the page you specify by input fields in your form. It includes automatic E-mailing of all submitted form variables, custom E-mails to the submitter and more. Easy to set up.
  • CGI Free - This service offers free CGI hosting that includes features such as a form mailer. Other CGI services here include browser redirection, random images, random quotes, "countdown," animation, clock, slideshow, random link, menu direction and text date.