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Create and Add your Own Contact Form to Blogger

If you are a blogger then you must have your own contact form to communicate with your blog readers and visitors. You cannot post your email ID to public because you will get lot of SPAM massages.
Blogger don't give any contact forms for their blogs, so we need to create it and add it ourselves. You can create contact form through Google docs or the simple way is to get it easily from another source.
There are many contact form providers but I will go with Kontactr because it's easy. Register with them and they will give you the code.
Here you can find three types of codes. Let's discuss them.

Ajax Embed Widget Contact Form for Blogger

The first option you will have is the Ajax embed form. Simply copy the code and add it where you want to have your form to be seen. You can also customize the look of it according to your styles by clicking the "Customize" button:

Button Code

It is a text link or a button. When the link is clicked it will direct the user to your contact page which is provided by Kontactr. This can be useful when any person wants to contact you and his browser does not supports JavaScript or you want to use it in any other website, forums, etc.

HTML Embed Contact Form

This is best to use for your blog as it uses no JavaScript. It's based on HTML codes using table form, and can be seen in any Lynx based browsers.

Adding Contact Form to Blogger

Choose any one of the above told ways and after selecting and customizing the type of form you want, copy any one of the code that they will provide to your clipboard.
Now, to add the contact form, create a new post, write ‘when, why, how, etc.’ to contact you, paste the any one of the codes mentioned above and publish it. You will have your own contact form for blogger.

Hiding the Contact Me Page Appearing on Homepage of Blogger

You don’t want the contact page to be viewed on homepage. So while publishing the post, back-date it. For example: today’s date is 7/8/2009, then set the date to 6/25/2009 and then publish it.

Basic Settings for Blogspot

New to Blogger? After creating your blog don't just start blogging because you need to know and configure some settings for your newly created blog on Blogger Platform. From your blogspot dashboard, click “Settings” which will lead you to do some basic settings and tweak your blog.

Under the Settings tab, the first thing you need to do is a basic setup for your blog. So let’s discuss the options.

Blog Tools: Here you can Import your blog, Export to another blog and Delete your blogger blog. It comes handy because you can backup your blog by clicking the “Import blog button”.

Title: Give a title for your blog. It will be better if you choose a title that matches your blog’s niche.

Description (Optional): Don’t forget to give a nice and brief description with some keywords in it. But I prefer to leave it blank as you may don't want to have same description for the posts that you write for SEO reason.

Add your blog to our listing: This will add your blog to Google's blog list. You will also find a navbar on top of your blog which enables you to search and go to next or previous blog that are listed and linked with Blogger.com. If you want others to come to your blog through these options, you may select “Yes” otherwise “No”.

Let search engines find your blog: If you want your blogspot blog to be found by the search engines then select “Yes” otherwise “No” if you want to blog privately.

Show Quick Editing on your Blog: This option will let you to automatically add a quick edit icon to your blog posts after they are published. Only you can see this button after logging in to your blogger account. This allows you to quickly edit your post form your blog directly.

Show Email Post links: Select “Yes” if you want to add a small “Email to Friends” button beneath your blog posts.

Adult Content: Select “Yes” if your blog contains adult content which will ask you blog viewers to confirm that they want to proceed to your blog, otherwise “No”.

Now comes to Global Settings that will be applied to all of your blogs.

Select post editor: There you will find “Updated editor”, “Old editor” and “Hide compose mode” which will not contain WYSIWYG editor. You may like to select the updated editor because it’s easy to write and format your posts accordingly.

Enable transliteration: If enabled, it will let you add a toolbar to the editor to convert English language to users selected language.

At last, save your basic settings for your blog.

Create Your Own Free Blog with Blogger

Launched in 1999, Blogger, a Google Service, is a great way to create your own blog for a starter. Blogger is totally free with free hosting.
Blogger is for:

To share your thoughts, photos, and more with friends and world.
Easy to post text, photos, and videos from the web or your mobile phone.
Unlimited flexibility to personalize your blog with themes, gadgets, and more.

First we going to learn how to create your own blog with some simple steps below:

Step 1: Sign Up with Google for an Account

You need a Google account to create your blog on Blogger. If you already have one then you need not to create a new account, just follow the below steps.

Step 2: Go to Blogger.com and Sign In

Step 3: Choose your Display Name

Step 4: Choose you Blog Title and Address wisely

Step 5: Choose your Template

Step 6: Start Blogging.

Tutorials for Blogger

I have made a list of Blogger tutorials that are posted in my blog. You can find many tutorials on editing and customizing Blogger templates and make your blog unique and beautiful. So let's browse through what can we find.

Blogger basics
Before Editing your Template
Editing Templates
Tips, Tricks and Hacks
Bookmaking Codes
Blogger Widgets
Facebook Guides
Twitter Guides
SEO Tips
Need more?

Blogspot Basics

Starter's guide.

Things to Know Before Editing Your Template

Know about Blogger Conditional Tags and How to Use Them

Designing Your Blogger Template and Customizing It

Here are some of the tutorials to customize your template and design your blog.

Create Three Column Blogger Template (Layout templates)
Add Three Columns in Footer in Blogger (Layout templates)
Add Two Columns Sidebar Below Main Sidebar (Layout templates)
Add Two Sidebar Columns Below Posts in Blogger (Layout templates)
Increase the Width of Blogger Comment Form
Highlight Author Comments in Blogger
Add Extra Gadget to Header in Blogger (New templates)
Resize Blogger header to Logo Size (New templates)
Increase Blogger's Comment Form's Width

Tips, Tricks and Hacks

Some interesting tips, tricks and hacks that you may want.

Customize the Read more Option - New Feature from Blogger
Add "Read more" Option - Officially from Blogger
Hide or Auto Hide Blogger Navbar
Show Blogger Gadgets on Specific and Particular Pages
Highlight Author and Administrator Comments in Blogger

Bookmarking Codes

Are you social? Have you added social bookmarking icons?

Add Social Bookmarking Icons below Blogger Posts (Unofficial and with 18 bookmarking sites)
Add Sexy Social Bookmarks v2 to Blogger (New one)
Add Sexy Social Bookmarks to Blogger
Official Button Counters