Create User Friendly Confirmation Pages

Including a form on your website is the best way to get feedback from your visitors.

You can have a form to gather your visitors' email address so that they can subscribe to your ezine. Or you can have a form to collect visitors' comments about your site. Also, forms allow your visitors to send you a request for a quote, or to send you all the necessary information when they want to buy your products or services.

In all these cases, you must design a confirmation page that will pop up after your visitors successfully fill up and submit a form. Unless you design a confirmation page, your visitors will be thrown into the generic confirmation page provided by your web host (usually an unsightly white screen displaying a convoluted plain text message written in a dated font type, that will most likely confuse your users and make them think that they have been thrown out of your site).

The confirmation page has several objectives:

Confirmation page example

It must clearly tell your users that the form was completed and sent successfully. For example, if the form is a subscription box for your newsletter or ezine, your confirmation page will say something like this: "Congratulations! You are now subscribed to our newsletter."

It must give clear instructions of what your visitor has to do next. To use the same subscription box example, your confirmation page will also say something like this: "You will soon receive an email message asking you to follow a link to activate your subscription. Follow that link to start receiving your ezine immediately".

It must provide your visitor with two or three navigation options so that he can continue browsing your site (don't just let him go.). Two popular options are: "Return to our main page" and "Browse our archives" (although depending on the size and the architecture of your site you can offer other options as well). One important consideration is that your confirmation page must have the same look and feel as the rest of your pages, so that your visitor will know that he is still in your site.

Once you create your confirmation page, you must insertthe necessary HTML code to your form script, so thatthe browser will automatically display your confirmationpage once the form has been successfully submitted.You do this by adding the following code after the <inputtype="hidden" name="success" value="http://www.yoursite.com/confirmationpage.html"> tagat the beginning our your form script.

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