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How to Add Email Forms to MySpace

Adding an email form to MySpace is extremely easy. The tutorial for adding an email form to MySpace is outlined below.

A demonstration form hosted on MySpace can be seen here.

1. Create Your Form HTML

The first step in integrating an email form into your website is to build the actual HTML code for the form. The easiest and quickest way to create the form code is to use myContactForm.com.

myContactForm.com features a free online wizard that steps you through the entire form building process. myContactForm.com has just about any feature you could ask for including auto-responders, CAPTCHA, file attachements, CSS styling, data exports (Excel, CSV, Text, HTML, etc.), pre-made templates, and much more.

Click Here to read a tutorial on creating the form HTML using myContactForm.com.

2. Open a Web Browser and go to MySpace.com

a. Login to your MySpace.com account


3. Edit Your Profile

a. Go to the Profile dropdown and click Customize Profile

b. Hover your mouse over the Module that you would like to add the email form to. Click the Edit Details icon

4. Insert the Form HTML

a. Click through to the area you would like to insert the email form. For our example, we've chosen the About Me: area. Email forms can be added to any part of your profile.

b. Click into the part of the profile that you would like to insert your email form. Paste the form HTML into the Window (Edit > Paste, or CTRL+V, or Right Click and Select Paste). If you do not have your form code created and copied, please read this tutorial to learn how to do so.

c. Click the button

d. Click the Close button

e. The edit window will close. Now click the Publish button.

6. Test Your Form

Open a web browser and go to your MySpace profile. Fill out the form and press the submit button in order to test it.

A demonstration form hosted on MySpace can be seen here.

Common Problems Users Experience:

I submit the form and get a form location error.

This is typically caused when you are testing a form that has not yet been published to your live web site. If you are still having this problem once you have uploaded the file to the live web site, please read below.

If you are using myContactForm.com, you need to login there and make sure that you've set the Form Location setting to the proper URL of your form.

a. Login to myContactForm.com

b. Click the Edit Button

c. Click the Basic Form Information Button

d. Enter all variations of the URL where the form would appear. Typically this is the simply the URL of your MySpace Profile.

e. Click