Contact Form etc...

Anh Tu Nguyen

1) I'm now using the contact form of Wufoo (and before that Jotform) and for the record, it's ugly af. Take a look here: http://www.tunguyenwedding.com/Contact
Is there any possibility (internal, external) to have a beautiful contact form like that (flothemes): http://ferjuaristi.com/contact/

2) Is there a way to place the logo in the middle of the menu?

3) Is it possible to move the social networks icon to the top of the page?

nickjamison

Not much help but wanted to say beautiful site. Also, not really minding your exiting contact form just for the record.

Anh Tu Nguyen

Thank you Nick! But the contact form is the weakest link on my site, it doesn't fit in the design ((

Hikin' Mike

1. • I'm not familiar with Wufoo, so I really can't help there. For the record, my contact form is from my WordPress site.
2. • Probably. You would have to put part of the navigation on the left side of the logo and the rest on the right.
3. • Put your social stuff in the header and not the footer.

denisegoldberg

Your options for your contact form are either the built-in smug form or Wufoo - unless you want to host the contact form elsewhere, like Mike does.

photoclick

I use external contact forms for the smugmug websites.

Anh Tu Nguyen

@Hikin' Mike said:
1. - I'm not familiar with Wufoo, so I really can't help there. For the record, my contact form is from my WordPress site.
2. - Probably. You would have to put part of the navigation on the left side of the logo and the rest on the right.
3. - Put your social stuff in the header and not the footer.

Thank you Mike.
How did you integrate contact form from wordpress and co?
How to change the default setting from footer to header?

denisegoldberg

@photoclick said:
I use external contact forms for the smugmug websites.

Just curious - is it because you used a pop-up that you were able to use external contact forms? I never thought about doing that.

photoclick

I do not think my external contact forms are pop-ups. It is just a link to an external website (17hats) that I customized a bit. So, you click on COntact in my Smugmug site, you will be brought to 17hats webstie, and once you submit the contact form it redirects you back to Smugmug site.

denisegoldberg

@photoclick said:
I do not think my external contact forms are pop-ups. It is just a link to an external website (17hats) that I customized a bit. So, you click on COntact in my Smugmug site, you will be brought to 17hats webstie, and once you submit the contact form it redirects you back to Smugmug site.

Thanks, that makes sense. The trick is having the form hosted on a site other than your smugmug site with access via a link, good to know.

Anh Tu Nguyen

But I dont like the idea that clients will be brought to another site. Seems not really professional.
I want a contact form that I can embed into my smugmug site and it comes with beautiful design that I can tweak to my liking. I am willing to pay for that but it seems that there is no such service...

denisegoldberg

@Anh Tu Nguyen said:
But I dont like the idea that clients will be brought to another site. Seems not really professional.
I want a contact form that I can embed into my smugmug site and it comes with beautiful design that I can tweak to my liking. I am willing to pay for that but it seems that there is no such service...

Did you look at photoclick's contact forms on the sites in his signature? I don't see anything about them that is not professional; the viewer is not aware the form is hosted on another site.

Hikin' Mike

@Anh Tu Nguyen said:

Thank you Mike.
How did you integrate contact form from wordpress and co?
How to change the default setting from footer to header?

I know HTML/CSS so making my SmugMug look like my WordPress was "easy".

Remove the social block in the footer and put it on the header.

Anh Tu Nguyen

@Hikin' Mike said:

@Anh Tu Nguyen said:

Thank you Mike.
How did you integrate contact form from wordpress and co?
How to change the default setting from footer to header?

I know HTML/CSS so making my SmugMug look like my WordPress was "easy".

Remove the social block in the footer and put it on the header.

I can create a new social block on the header but somehow I can't remove the old one in the header.

Cygnus Studios

For wufoo, you can set the background to transparent and that will make it fit in perfectly with your smugmug website background.

Anh Tu Nguyen

Thanks I will try.
Another question: do you know how to use a google font, for example: Cormorant?

Anh Tu Nguyen

Updated: I did set the background to transparent and it does look better but the SEND button is still a pain in the ass
http://www.tunguyenwedding.com/Contact

nickjamison

For the record: Wuform is the F'ING worst. Apologies for venting my frustration but this is the first time I've felt scammy vibes from smugmug with this being the only customizable format for the inexperienced HTML/CSS user. =/

Anh Tu Nguyen

@nickjamison said:
For the record: Wuform is the F'ING worst. Apologies for venting my frustration but this is the first time I've felt scammy vibes from smugmug with this being the only customizable format for the inexperienced HTML/CSS user. =/

Agree. But do we have another choice?
The integrated contact form of smugmug sucks. Jotform sucks too. I'm seriously considering quitting smugmug and try to jump ship to wordpress and flothemes

nickjamison

@Anh Tu Nguyen said:
Agree. But do we have another choice?
The integrated contact form of smugmug sucks. Jotform sucks too. I'm seriously considering quitting smugmug and try to jump ship to wordpress and flothemes

We do not and thats where the scammy vibes are coming from. I meant to customize a simple contact form and host it will cost me $24 a month?! Insanity. In the meantime I just settled for the old mailto: link in my contact section.

On the bright side I have spent the last few weeks thoroughly buried in smug mug customization and think I finally have found a rhythm. Haven't launched yet as its not finished. Also, maybe I am ignorant but I haven't come across another website platform that syncs so seamlessly with Lightroom which accounts for 90% of my workflow.

For design, Wordpress seems like a great route but the css/html seems intimidating. I already bug @Hikin'Mike allot as it is.

Hikin' Mike

@nickjamison said:
For design, Wordpress seems like a great route but the css/html seems intimidating. I already bug @Hikin'Mike allot as it is.

I don't mind at all.

If you're going to create a blog, then going the WordPress and SmugMug is the way to go, IMO. I have my own domain. I installed WP to the root directory. I created a subdomain for my pictures (SmugMug). The only thing that runs my Portfolio is SmugMug. My home page, Blog is from WordPress, including my Contact Page.

nickjamison

@Hikin' Mike said:
My home page, Blog is from WordPress, including my Contact Page.

So who hosts your WP site then?

Hikin' Mike

@nickjamison said:

@Hikin' Mike said:
My home page, Blog is from WordPress, including my Contact Page.

So who hosts your WP site then?

icdsoft.com

Hikin' Mike

Just to add, since most people here have their SmugMug site on their root directory, you can create a subdomain and install WordPress there for your blog and contact stuff.

SteveTheOldMan

Gawd...I feel totally incompetent. Is there a tutorial on this...anywhere? Thanks.

denisegoldberg

@SteveTheOldMan said:
Gawd...I feel totally incompetent. Is there a tutorial on this...anywhere? Thanks.

What are you trying to do? The easiest is to just use the contact form that SmugMug provides (unless you have a requirement that it doesn't meet).

Here's a link to the help page on the standard contact form - http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/articles/1248294-how-do-i-create-a-contact-page-.

SteveTheOldMan

Very basic stuff...just trying to start a very basic customer list. Thanks for the link!

denisegoldberg

@SteveTheOldMan said:
Very basic stuff...just trying to start a very basic customer list. Thanks for the link!

If you find you need more fields than are available on the SmugMug standard form you can easily add a WuFoo form to your site.

See the help page at http://help.smugmug.com/customer/en/portal/articles/1259577-add-a-wufoo-form-to-my-site.

SteveTheOldMan

Wufoo seems nice enough...but you can't even have a "confirm email" field? (i.e., if email <> confirm email, then throw an error and don't go anywhere?)

AceCo55

Maybe this will help?
http://www.wufoo.com/guides/confirming-the-email-field/

SteveTheOldMan

Thanks, all!