Add a form to your website without building a backend

How do I add a contact form to my website?

You design it on the canvas the way you design the rest of the page, publish the page, then submit a test entry yourself and confirm it arrives. Because the form is part of the layout rather than an embedded widget, it takes your type and spacing instead of arriving with a third party’s styling attached to it.

Where do form submissions go?

To an inbox. Siter.io describes forms as collecting information from visitors, including subscription and contact details, and says the answers arrive in your inbox. Which address that is, and whether it can be changed or sent to more than one person, is not documented publicly, so check it in the app before you build a routine around it.

How many fields should a contact form have?

As few as let you reply properly. Usually that is a way to reach the person and the message itself, plus a name if you want to open the reply with one. Ask for a phone number, a company size or a budget only when the answer changes what you would do next. Otherwise you are trading replies for data you will never look at.

Do I need a backend or a server for a website form?

Not to collect messages. The page can be entirely static and the submission still reaches you as email, which covers enquiries, briefs and sign-ups. You need an actual application the moment the server has to decide something in response, such as signing a person in, charging them, or looking up an order. That is a different kind of product, not a form on a marketing page.

How many forms can I have on Siter.io?

3 on Solo, 5 on Plus, and unlimited on Pro. The free Start plan lists 3 as well, but it publishes nothing publicly, so those are a design allowance rather than working forms. The count runs across your web pages rather than per page, so two pages carrying one form each have used two of the allowance, not one.

Can I use forms on the free plan?

You can design them, and the plan lists an allowance of 3. Whether you can collect anything with them is a different question. No - the free plan builds and previews privately; publishing needs a paid plan, so there is no public page for a visitor to submit from. Publishing starts from $7/mo billed yearly, and the forms allowance on that plan is the same 3 as the free one.

How do I stop spam from a website contact form?

Not documented, and we are not going to claim it either way. There is no published statement about spam filtering, attachments or validation on Siter.io forms. Treat the first week of a new public form as a trial. If junk starts arriving, that is the moment to ask support what the options are, rather than to assume there are none.

Can I export the answers or send them to another tool?

Not documented. Whether past submissions can be downloaded, how long they are kept, and whether answers can be pushed into a spreadsheet, a CRM or a mailing tool is not stated anywhere public. If your process depends on any of that, ask before you build it, and until you have an answer treat the copy in your inbox as the only record you can count on.

Where should a subscribe form go?

Wherever somebody has just finished reading something of yours, which is the only moment they have evidence you are worth hearing from again. That means the end of a piece of writing or a project page, not the contact page. Keep the contact form on the contact page, doing the other job, and word the two differently.