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I added a Contact page and form to my blog last night. (It’s a work in progress, but feel free to stop in and say Hi!)
I’ve been meaning to add one for awhile and had played around with a form or two, but nothing seemed to stick. So, what finally got me moving?
Four sentences from a blog post:
So, I went to Google Docs and started a new form. File>New>Form. I put in the categories that you see when you see my contact form. Then, I save the form with a template. Finally, I wrote a new WordPress page called “contact” and embedded the form into it (copy/paste level of difficulty).
In ~50 words, I know what steps to take, how many steps there are, an approximate level of difficulty, and therefore about how much time it would take.
The result? One hour later I had a live, working form on my site.
When faced with an unfamiliar task, we’re often presented with either an obsessively detailed checklist or a hopelessly vague idea – both of which inspire a distinct feeling of dread and almost always cause preventable delays.
What are you doing to find the middle ground?
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