How to Handle Forms on Your Static Site

Posted by dwalkr on Friday June 15, 2018 @12:13PM
from the forestry.io dept.

https://forestry.io/blog/5-ways-to-handle-forms-on-your-static-site/

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Re:How to Handle Forms on Your Static Site by desiredpersona on Friday June 15, 2018 @12:40PM (#17321187)

I recently decided to go with Netlify forms as I already deploy all my sites there. Great post DJ

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Re:How to Handle Forms on Your Static Site by ncphillips on Friday June 15, 2018 @02:20PM (#17322154)

How has that experience been so far?

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Re:How to Handle Forms on Your Static Site by desiredpersona on Friday June 15, 2018 @04:08PM (#17323119)

Netlify forms work great.

I was up and running within 5 minutes. The hardest part was styling the form.

By using Forestry CMS with Jekyll and hosting the site on Netlify, I have eliminated the need for server side code.

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Re:How to Handle Forms on Your Static Site by joeblow9999 on Friday June 15, 2018 @05:12PM (#17323599)

By definition, if you are handling form submission, your site is NOT static. Many ways to implement that functionality including offloading it to a third party but... your site is not static. It is processing form inputs

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Re:How to Handle Forms on Your Static Site by edac2 on Sunday June 17, 2018 @08:42PM (#17335185)

I’m surprised you didn’t mention Wufoo forms. You can embed forms into your static site using JavaScript. I’ve been using it for a few years now and it’s great.

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