The Tualatin Chamber of Commerce has an annual event called Celebrate Tualatin where there are awards given to members within multiple categories. There are two ways to nominate a person:
- Print out a PDF form and FAX it in
- Online form
For the online form task we decided to use Google Forms, because of how easy it is to visually create a Form and it collects all of the responses made by people nominating. Here’s what the finished form looks like:
To create the form you login to Google Docs and add a new Form, then start to fill in the details:
I gave our form a Title, and the first question was a Multiple Choice with six options, and it’s a required question:
All of the remaining questions were Text fields, and there are many other choices for the type of field that you can have:
It’s easy to rearrange questions by just moving your cursor over the question, then dragging and dropping to a new location:
We wanted to be notified by email whenever a new nomination was made with this form, so we installed an Add-on called “Form Notifications”:
When a form is filled out, then our recipients get an email notification and a Google spreadsheet is updated with the new info:
To get this form into a WordPress page or post, while in Google Docs we choose: File> Embed
I just Copy this HTML code, then in WordPress I edit my Post, view in Text mode, then Paste:
There you have it, how to make a Google Form and embed it inside of your WordPress page or post. Enjoy building your forms and analyzing the results in Google Docs.
