Adding forms to your site

December 16, 2010

EDIT: please see the updated instructions for forms on our website

We recommend using a website called Wufoo to manage your forms. Wufoo lets you edit your forms really easily, but at the same time it offers some very powerful functions like reporting and even taking payments in a form.

Getting Wufoo forms into your StudyStays site is fairly easy, but requires a few manual steps. Here's how to do it.

Create your form

  1. If you haven't already, sign up for Wufoo account (the free account works fine for up to 3 forms)
  2. On Wufoo, create your form
  3. Still on Wufoo, get the "Embed Form Code"
    1. Go to the "Forms" tab
    2. Click "Code" underneath the form you just created in step 2 above
    3. Click the "Embed Form Code" tab on the left-hand side
    4. Copy the text from the "Javascript Version" box

 

Put the form onto a new page in your website

  1. In your Studystays site, create a new page (Admin > Content tab > Pages > Add a new page)
  2. In the Content area toolbar, click the button that looks like "< / >" (top-right) and paste in the "Embed form code" from step 3 above
  3. Save the page.

Optional: Link to the form from your front page
Note: You must be a super admin to edit the front page. For more info on super admin accounts, see the post Creating administrator accounts, under the heading "Administrator types".
  1. Open the page you created in the previous section
  2. Copy the address of the page (e.g. http://ua.studystays.com.au/pages/off-campus-accommodation-service-feedback-form)
  3. Go to setting page for the front page message (Admin > Settings > Advanced settings > Front page message)
  4. In the "Front page message" edit area, highlight the text you want to link from, and click the "Link" button in the toolbar (shown above)
  5. Paste the address of the page