Users Guide

SoNET Powered Websites

Introduction

Thank You for using this SoNET Powered Website. By now you have figured out that your new website is all about providing you the most bang for your buck, so lets get into all the good things you can do with it. First off, you can upload Pictures, Video's and even Mp3 files so others can not only read what you have to say but see and hear it too. Your new site can even have its own members and allow you to build your fan club or email list and send messages to all your members. You can change whether it is public or private as well as change how it looks in just a few seconds without losing any of your information. In addition to that you can add, edit, spell-check and customize all the text on your website in multiple languages. You can insert pictures into your front page text, write a Blog and even post classifieds ads on your site. You can even get comments and ratings on all the content you post and those who post can follow the conversation from anywhere. Additionally you can post journal notes, make public announcements across the entire network and communicate with other site owners on the network via email messaging. Your site even has its own user management and each member of your site gets a profile. The custom contact forms and invitations mean that you can build your own hub of activity and communicate with all your members, generate leads for your business and more. PayPal support means you can even sell stuff on your new website. These and many more features are yours when you own a SoNET powered website. There is nothing, that compares to your SoNET powered website at anywhere near the price you are paying :) So tell a friend!

Chapter 6. Contact Forms

The Contact Form Your Results Data Creating A New Form

Using A Default (pre-installed) Form Form Fields and Settings Form Properties and Options

The Contact Form
One of the most powerful reasons to have a website is the fact that you can collect lead information via contact forms! SoNET powered websites benefit from the ability to create customized data collection forms, they can be as simple as a contact form or as complicated as a survey and best of all you decide what you want. Getting it to work is taken care of by your website with no developer or programming skills needed.
 
Click the MANAGE CONTACT FORMS link from the Admin controls on the side (as usual, if you want another name for the Contact Form because you want to use it for another purpose like a survey, simply change the name of the navigation button and save it)

Once clicked the following screen shows

The Results (collected information) tab will show what has been collected from the form so you keep all the information you collect and with notifications you can even forward the info to your phone, so you know when you have a lead and get all the info you need right away (woot!). You even Edit and Delete the entries.

Click the ADD NEW CONTACT FORM button to select from the default templates or create your own NEW form.

Once clicked the following screen appears where you can choose from some pre-defined forms or make your own custom form.

The Basic Contact Form is the default. You can customize the actual information collection fields for the forms. To see what each field can do, click the settings for it. You can Add New Field or delete those you do not want or need.

Many options are available for fields like: Single Line Text, Dropdown Menu's, Check Boxes, Multiple Choice Selections and other useful features to help you make whatever kind of form you want FAST!

Clicking SETTINGS gets you the options for that field

The Properties of the Basic Contact Form (where you can name it and save details about it as well as setup where the collected information should be e-mailed). This is also where you turn on of off other features like instant Video Chat (on networks where it is an option), select if you want to save anything from the form in your archives or if you wish to Lock (turn off) the form.

The Texts that will show on your contact form can be changed also. If you like you can upload a picture to and album on your site and use HTML after it is uploaded to make it display here, that trick works for almost any content you like if you really want graphics on your contact form, just save your code as an HTML page, open it up in your browser and cut/paste it in here. NOTE: Some networks may have this ability turned off so spammers can't graffiti the sites.

This is what a visitor to your site will see (in this case a Basic Form is being used).