Of course, you’ll want to use this feature sparingly. After all, you really want to make it simple for your visitors to contact you! But, if you run into that situation where you just need to require a piece of info, Contactize has you covered.

1. Add a New Page.
2. Change your page’s title (e.g. “Contact Us”).
3. Change your page’s permalink (e.g. “contact”).
4. Click on the HTML tab and paste in your Contactize page-widget code.
5. Click “Publish”.

You’re done!

Sign into your account and go to the Setup – Contact form page. Scroll down to the “Contact form text” section and update away! This is a great feature if you want to add a little spice to your form or if you want the language to better match the flavor of your site.

Or, you can use a different language altogether. In fact, since Contactize contact forms support international Unicode using the UTF-8 character set, your contact form can be displayed in over 650 languages.

For example, if you receive both sales and support contacts, or if you have an upcoming show or product that might generate contacts you want to respond to more quickly, the easy solution is to add another field to your contact form. In addition to entering their email address and a message, visitors could give you more information… like a radio button with the labels “Sales” and “Support”, or a drop-down select box with the names of upcoming shows. Contactize allows you to add these custom contact form fields easily. In fact, Contactize allows you to add as many text, radio, select or checkbox fields as you like. This allows you to gather all sorts of specific information from your visitors.

Then (and this is where the powerful part comes in) you can add rules to your email client to handle these emails differently. For example, you could use GMail’s filter feature to tag email messages that have your form field words in them–or to even move them to another folder.

Contactize makes it easy to manage large volumes of contacts by customizing your email contacts in coordination with your email program.

Stay tuned for more tips on how to use Contactize with your website!

We’ve been working hard and are happy to announce Contactize Beta! Most of the major features are in place and you are now able to Contactize your site. Try it out! Fill out the signup form, confirm your email address, and spend a few minutes entering information about your website. Then, simply copy the Contactize code generated for you to your website. You’ll then have a fully functional contact form.

Anyone who signs up during the Beta period (the first 1,000 signups or so) will have a FREE contactize site for life. But be warned… we’re working out some bugs and are eager to hear feedback.

So, let’s get this party started!