Any website requires a form that will collect contact details. This is very important because when a visitor visits your website, you need his details so that you can get back to him and sell your offer. The amount of emails you get is also an important key indication of your site's effectiveness. So… having an easy to use contact form in a prominent place in your web site is crucial!
Joomla helps you in this case because it provides you with all the options! Adding a contact form becomes very easy with the Joomla administration system. It has a ready to use built in contact form, which makes things a lot simpler than conventional websites.
The steps that you need to follow to get this working are given here below:
- Initially, you need to login to the administrator back end. By now, you know that it is present after the context root of your website (/administrator).
- You need to then create the categories in which you want to divide the contact process. Most of the times you will only need one basic category of contacts.
- You might want to give different contact information to different visitors. For example, you might need to add the contact details for sales and service or logistics or marketing and so on.
- Once you have an understanding of how many categories you require, you need to click on the components, then the contacts, and then the categories that will give you all the existing default views. This way, you can reuse what is already available.
- You can add other categories by clicking on the new tab that is present on the right hand corner.
- Once you click on the button, a form is provided in which you can fill all the necessary details and you then save it.
- If you want you can connect a contact to an exisiting Joomla user (this will you will not have to reenter his/her email)
You can even set access privileges for all the different contacts, as this will enable you to make sure that you have given the right protection to all your subtle details.
You can view all the contacts, as well as add contacts when required. It is not necessary that you need to add them initially. It is one major requirement that any web design is formulated perfectly, only when you have given the right feedback and you can implement the changes. Joomla is very flexible in this regard.
When you select components and then contacts using the menu, you will see all the contacts you have already created and you will be able to add more using the new button. Can you believe it – you can even give links to a user directly from here and you are also provided with certain security parameters which will allow you to be able to block unwanted mails as well.
Once this is ready, all you need to do is put this form through the web design process. In the main menu, you need to add a new item. Now, all you need to do is add the contacts that are internally linked to the categories. Using the standard link, you can add a single one and using the category layout, you can add multiple contact details. So, what are you waiting for? Go ahead and try implementing this into your design and you will be wonder-struck at what this tool can do for you.