I have a client who uses custom forms on her web site to collect user feedback. She's been using formlog.com and is happy with it, but doesn't like that the post-submission landing page takes the user away from her site. Does anyone know of a provider of these forms which are entirely embeddable within her site, won't carry the user away, and are still fully functional?

I know the free ones are ad-supported, I'm willing to pay for one that keeps me on the site.

And is ASP the best way to do this?

Thanks
PB

And is ASP the best way to do this

It the hosting supports ASP, Yes it is.

Feedback and data collection forms are most programmers bread & butter jobs.

Something like http://www.brainjar.com/asp/formmail/ should do it?

Does it have to be ASP or can it be PHP?

Well if you're already running asp, then the "free" method is to write your own forms. Then you can do whatever you'd like, including not push the user off to another site and not support it with advertising. The cost is time.

What does "fully functional" mean? Can you give some examples of what you're trying to do? Depending on what it is, you'll get good advise about how difficult or easy each piece is, and how you might go about it.

Thank you Forrest.

Basically, I want visitors to arrive at a dedicated page for a form where they submit contact info, maybe a few pre-populated drop-down choices, and when they click submit, it stays right on the page. Or goes to a Thank You landing page based on the same CSS style sheet, i.e. same look and feel as the rest of the site.

I'm starting to think that yeah, I'll just write them myself rather than go through an intermediary who probably just wants to sell ad space.

Any input is much appreciated!

PB

That sounds pretty easy. Are you using a web hot, or is this for a company who's going to do it themselves?

ASP is designed to handle forms like you've described. You'll probably want to store the data in a database, which is likely to be Access or SQL Server. Do you know how to work with ADO or ADO.NET? Which of the two depends on whether you want your forms in asp classic or asp.net ... again this probably depends on your host, if you'll want to do anything else with the site, and so on. You basically won't go wrong either way.