Articles tagged “Form Builder”

Using Regular Expressions as CAPTCHA

This may seem hard at first because you are getting into uncharted territory with regular expressions. But once you see the process it really is not that tough. :)  Step 1:  Drag...

Responsive Form Themes

Web Form Builder is the first form program in the world to offer responsive designs. What's "responsive," you ask? A responsive web design is one that responds to the size of...

S-Drive Academy: Mailing Lists

An Effective Mailing List: The Bread & Butter of the Web (And with Web Form Builder and MailChimp, a lot of easy fun, too!) How do you gather contact information and engage...

How do I make my Pop-Up form transparent?

Ever used the pop-up form function in Web Form Builder? It makes your form pop up over a webpage that it's emedded in. If you want that pop-up to be transparent, you need to make a few simple...

How do I configure Web Form Builder for use with PayPal Sandbox?

If you want to use PayPal Sandbox with Web Form Builder, there is a small change that you will need to make to one of the PHP scripts.  Please note, this does not work if your form is hosted...

Saving Data Tab in Web Form Builder

With Web Form Builder, you have the ability to log your form results into a CSV (coma seperated value) file as well as a MySQL database (SQL not supported).     Save to a...

Digital Signature

Digital Signatures is easy to use and can be used to authenticate the identity of the sender of a message or the signer of a document. By following the steps outlined below you will be up and...

Patch System Registry for Invalid Mime-Type

Web Form Builder requires a properly set mime-type for CSS files that is stored in your system registry. If this key is not set correctly, it will create problems not only for Web Form Builder,...

Why Do Form Elements Look Different in Certain Browsers?

When you publish a form with Web Form Builder, not everyone will see the exact same results. This is just the nature of the web, as no two browsers (or even versions of a browser) render HTML and...

How to Configure the "Show Element" Property

When people are filling out your forms, not every element needs to show. Sometimes an element needs to only pop up when some other property is selected. Or maybe you want an element to disappear...

Setting Up an S-Drive Account in Web Form Builder

The easiest way to get your form online is by entering your CoffeeCup account information in the Form Publishing tab of the Settings menu. Trust us, it literally takes seconds to set up and...

Use Web Form Builder to Create a Guest Book with Streams

Want a guestbook on your S-Drive Site? Here's how to use your Stream as a guest book powered by a form built in Web Form Builder. Create your form in Web Form Builder, including any...

Regular Expressions in Web Form Builder

Web Form Builder 1.2 introduces the Reg. Expression element. This is a very versatile element that allows a wide range of custom uses, from an "Only Letters" field to an "eBay...

Form Limits in the S-Drive Dashboard

Web Form Builder gives you all the tools to build powerful web forms with little to no design or HTML experience. S-Drive Forms gives you a home for those forms without needing your own web...

How to manually adjust the Time Zone settings in Web Form Builder

Web Form Builder sends emails using the UTC time zone format. Soon we'll have a feature that allows you to adjust for your local time zone, but with just a small modifiction to a php file,...

Regular Expression Examples

This is a list of more advanced regular expressions that can be used with the Regular Expression element in Web Form Builder 1.2+. Don't know what a regular expression is or how to use...

How to increase maximum file upload size

Web Form Builder has a maximum file upload size of 8129kB per file upload button. The reason why we have a file size limit is because the majority  of shared hosting companies out there...

Displaying Your Form as a Pop-Up

Embedding a form in a webpage or linking directly to it on its own page are easy, traditional ways for people to use your web forms. But with the release of Web Form Builder 2.1, there is a third...

The HTML Element in Web Form Builder

The HTML element in Web Form Builder allows you to enter practically any HTML code you wish to include in your form. This means that you can include HTML content, in-line CSS styling, and...

Overriding the default "from:" address in Web Form Builder

By default, any emails you receive will come from formname@domain.com (where "formname" is the saved name of your form and "domain.com" is your publishing domain). However,...

MailChimp Compatibility Errors

Web Form Builder has a lot of mailing list options, and most of them must be entirely compatible with those required by MailChimp in order for your form to properly interface with your mailing...

Chapter 6: Editing Confirm and Notification Emails

With the ever changing world of web design and ever growing mobile market, your form notifications need to be crisp and responsive. By making this change, you are allowing customers to access the...

What are the Server Requirements to use Web Form Builder?

Most people don't want to even worry about server requirements, because it can be complicated stuff. That's why so many people choose to use CoffeeCup S-Drive to host their forms....

Understanding ReCAPTCHA in Web Form Builder

Web Form Builder comes with a built-in security system if you choose to use it: "I am not a robot" or a reCAPTCHA box. You've seen them on the web before, and likely used a few of these...

The Payments Property in Web Form Builder

You can accept payments in Web Form Builder by enabling the form payments option. You can then configure certain form elements as payment fields. To enable form payments, click the Settings...

Putting Your Form on a Joomla Website

Got a Joomla site that needs a form? Planning to use the CoffeeCup Form Builder to create it? Prefer to contain it all within your own server rather than taking advantage of the S-Drive...

Preparing a New Windows Web Form Builder Theme

So you've decided to make your own Web Form Builder theme, eh? Excellent! First you need to do a little bit of prep work. This tutorial will show you how to create a new theme so you don't...

Web Form Builder Sample Test Form

Web Form Builder Lite only allows you to publish your form to S-Drive .  Exporting your form to your own server is only available with the registered version of the software. This...

How to configure MailChimp

Mailing list support is without a doubt a snazzy and useful feature in Web Form Builder. When you set up a mailing list, you can use your form to collect information from people to be used on a...

Publishing a Form to S-Drive with Web Form Builder

Publishing your forms to the web is easy when you use Web Form Builder's built-in S-Drive integration. Your forms are hosted on our servers and available to the entire world—plus, your...