Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Contact Me!

I just added a contact form to my about page.

This site is powered by blogger, mostly because I wanted a free solution for a blog until I could justify having a paid one. Blogger is not as flexible with it’s page and layout options as say wordpress, but a few minutes on google can help with making things work the way you want them to.

Blogger only displays the contact form on the sidebar, so to add the contact form to my about page I had to:
  1. Enable the contact form widget
  2. Copy the form code from the HTML output
  3. Paste the form code into the about page HTML
  4. Hide the contact form widget from displaying in the sidebar
Here are 3 websites I referred to for help:
  1. http://www.trickspanda.com/2014/03/add-blogger-contact-form-page/
  2. http://www.bloggerplugins.org/2013/05/create-separate-contact-page-for-blogger.html
  3. http://helplogger.blogspot.com/2013/05/new-blogger-widget-contact-form-change.html
The first site has the most elegant way of hiding the contact form from the sidebar in my opinion. The second site one shows you exactly where you are copying the form code from. The third one has some good points about styling the form for a finishing touch.

I hope this is helpful for someone!

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