Feedback Form

Summary

Feedback forms are forms for web visitors to give feedback on the site.  Links to feedback forms will automatically appear on some templates (standard and standard sidebar). You may also add you own links to feedback forms.

Why Use Them?

Feedback form have the following advantages:

• They avoid putting email address on the web site.
  • This prevents spam harvesters from getting your email address
  • The web visitor need not have an email client open to give feedback.  This is especially useful if they are not using their own computer.
• The feedback form results tells you what type of browser they are using and where they have been in the site.  This can help to understand their feedback.
• Copies of the feedback forms are sent to the College of Education Webmaster. 

How to Use Them?

Feedback forms are turned on by default on all web sites.  You need not turn them on, but you should make sure the email they are going to is correct and test the form.  Feedback forms are sent to the email address in the author email address in the page properties or folder properties.  Send a feedback form to test that it is going to the correct email address.

Turning Feedback Forms On and Off

You can turn feedback forms on or off for a single page by setting the the feedback form page property to yes or no.  You can turn them on or off for an entire site or folder by setting the feedback form property to yes or no in the folder properties file.

What Does Form and Email Look Like?

Here is a feedback form.

Below is what the resulting email looks like.  Text in italics was entered by the web visitor.  The rest of the information such as what type of browser they were using is determined by the EdWebs web application.

EdWebs Feedback Form Email The user has requested a reply to this feedback. Submitter Name: jane doe Submitter Email: jdoe@uiuc.edu URL: http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/fsd/results About: Other Comments: Trying to locate a Professor Emeritus (mid-80's) who might have advised a school board task force at Deland-Weldon High School on issues related to school closure. Do you know how I might find/get contact information or applied research offered from him? Thank you. Deborah L. Carter, M.ED. Parker, CO 720.842.0170 Referrers (most recent to least recent pages visited): http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/fsd/results http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/fsd http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/eps/index.html http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/academics/index.html http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/forfacstaff/index.html http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/ http://www.uiuc.edu/index.html Original Refererer to COE Web Server: http://www.uiuc.edu/index.html Browser: Platform: windows Platform version: xp Browser: msie Browser Major Version:6 Browser Minor Version: 0 User Agent String: mozilla/4.0 (compatible; msie 6.0; windows nt 5.1; .net clr 1.1.4322) This message sent by the EdWebs Page Manager. More information on the EdWebs can be found at: Ed Webs Support Page Ed Webs Error Message Page

 

How To Create Your Own Links to Feedback Forms