For those of us who have to constantly reference HTML form help pages to create new forms for websites and surveys, there's nothing better than this cool new "AJAX" automated form builder. It's intuitive, easy-to-use, well designed and very flexible. It even allows you to specify if a form element is required.
I'm not sure what their revenue model will be, but the link love will be coming their way fast and I predict they could charge $2-$5 a shot easily and get it. I know I'd be happy to pay to avoid having to build the darn things by hand.
p.s. Big Complaint - It only works in Firefox for me... Broken in IE.
There is another online forms builder out there called The Blue Form. It features an AJAX style form builder as well as the ability to assign approval workflows to the forms. This makes it more of an online process automation / eforms workflow site rather than just a form builder. It could be used in most office type environments to automate paper based processed. We are currently trailing it at the company where I work and the reception has been quite good.
good luck blue note! https://www.formlogix.comteam.
look at this new top of the art tool!!! formlogix is a great web forms creation platform easy to use and FREE. https://www.formlogix.co
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thank you! That looks like a great resource
Rand, you're cutting edge man! Just now got hip to this site! When I Googled Woo Fu your image shows up under their sitelinks with a description of this blog. Probably personalization at work. No, still there on a Non Personalized search. Cool.
thank you! That looks like a great resource
Chris - in my opinion, you've got a terrific project going; congrats. Very nice of you to stop by, too - referral tracking can be quite rewarding. Let us know when you've got it all ready for delivery!
Randfish, there is no way we would release a final product without supporting IE. We're trying to build it first and get some eyes on it before making sure everything works in IE.
BrandonKahre, the finished application will let you publish, save, share, view submitted form data, and more. Right now, we're just trying to get feedback for the first stage.
Matt beat me to mentioning Form Assembly. :D
I think we'll be seeing more apps like this in the future - combination of flash and javascript for a "nicer" user experience.
Until IE is less than 3% of the market share, I say "down with people who don't design for IE."
Why would you purposefully reject a potential client base and market for your product?
OK - done giving Matt a hard time, now on to my other question - dyn4mik3 - where does Wufoo use Flash? I think it's all JS and XHTML.
according to Wufoo.com, it requires "Flash Player 8 and a JS Enabled Browser". It uses flash for most of the "building" process actually.
Is there a way to see the source of your created form? I can't seem to find it, and that's fairly key IMO :D
I was joking about the IE thing. I support developing for both, of course. I'd just be very happy if IE lost it's market share. Having pages not work in IE but still work in FF can only aid in this cause. "Doesn't work in IE? Try firefox" bears a very similar resemblance to the "Sick of your windows server crashing? Try linux" mantra that helped the open source movement gain so much momentum.
Here's something similar that kat sent me yesterday to review for her article:
https://formassembly.com/
*COUGH* DOWN WITH IE *COUGH*