Design:
Keep forms as short as possible. Users hate completing forms online, so the simpler it is, the better your success rate is likely to be.
Ensure that form fields can be accessed without a mouse. Not everyone will have access to a mouse (think PDAs, cell phones etc). Use the label with the for attribute to explicitly associate each form control with a proper label (as opposed to styled plain text).
Allow for custom stylesheets. Both eShop and Secure, Accessible Contact Form have this option. Makes life much easier when integrating the plugin’s output with an existing site.
Plenty of unique classes and ids for us designers, please. A unique id on the form itself would probably come in handy.
Hi
The form has been created and you can visit this post to download:
CRM Contact Form
The php and form are easily edited and can be changed as wish. No css was used to style the form – it comes unstyled.
If someone wishes to take hold of what is said above and then send it to me I’ll incorporate it in the release and credit the designer.
Thanks
Rich
I tried to install the contact form plugin, but WordPress said it did not have a valid header.
—- Just realized I had to manual install because there was an add-contact folder within.
THANKS for making this.
One more thing. . .
It looks like it’s installed ok – got the form to show on a post/page, however, when I go to set up the form, there is no “Contact Form” listed when I go to admin “Settings” (stated in your readme file).
Anyone else have this issue?
how do we make the contact form work? what is the “shortcode”
Hi There
Sorry I’m a bit late to this thread…
Was just browsing for CRM plugins and found yours…After having a brief play, one feature I would like to see is a bulk import from CSV function.
Thanks!
just installed this plugin now – great!! Thanks!!
I complete agree with CiaranM – Please please please can we have an import option? even if just from Excel (CSV would be better).
Hope to hear from you soon! Thanks in advance!!
You have built a simple CRM that is easy to edit for PHP coders. Congrats. Here are some suggestions:
1) Extract all CSS into a separate file.
2) Extract strings from PHP source.
3) Move sales rankings into a db table and allow changes either through mysql administration or through an administrator config page.
4) Use AJAX to update the address card rather than using javascript. Now you are downloading every address but this makes the page very heavy for large lists of contacts.
5) If you do #4, then also use AJAX to display notes for the active contact. Now you have to click on the view/edit link that takes you to a new page.
6) If you do NOT do #4, then at least remember the context for showing notes. That is, when you click on Return to Contact list, you ought to return to the tab that was active and the contact that was active. Now you always return to All forcing the user to click to return to the correct tab.
Good luck with your future work.
