Form guides

Plain-language help for putting a working form on your website — whatever it's built with. No jargon, no plugin funnels; each guide is honest about when your platform's own form is the better choice.

Put a form on your platform

• WordPress Add a contact form without installing a plugin — one Custom HTML block.
• Shopify A custom quote or wholesale form without an app subscription.
• Wix The Embed HTML element, its iframe caveats, and the simpler hosted-page route.
• Squarespace A Code Block form — or a no-code alternative that works on every plan.
• Webflow Keep your Webflow design, point the form's Action at your own endpoint.
• Static sites GitHub Pages, Vercel, Netlify or plain hosting — working forms with no server code.

Stay compliant

• GDPR and web forms, in plain language The actual duties for a small-business form — no legalese, no scare-selling.
• Consent checkboxes When your form needs one, when it doesn't, and how to build one that counts.
• How long can you keep submissions? Sensible retention periods per form type — and how deletion actually happens.
• The privacy note under your form One honest sentence, with copy-paste examples for common forms.
• Why EU hosting matters The EU–US transfer story in plain language — and what hosting can't do for you.

Design better forms

• Validation without JavaScript The browser already validates required fields, emails and lengths — let it.
• The phone number field, done right Why the best phone field barely validates, and when to require one.
• File uploads — and when to skip them The markup, the real costs behind it, and the lighter link-field pattern.
• How long should a form be? Every field pays rent or leaves: the audit, the ordering, the multi-step question.

Understand the plumbing

• Where do form submissions go? The action URL explained: form backends, your own server, spam and captchas.

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