---
title: Solving the Pain of Forms on Static Sites
teaser: Or, "Styling Wufoo forms is not the answer".
tags: formkeep
author: Ben Orenstein
published_on: 2015-12-07
---

We created a service called
[FormKeep](https://formkeep.com/?utm_source=giant-robots&utm_medium=blog-post&utm_campaign=formkeep-feels-your-pain)
that makes putting forms on static sites generated by Jekyll or Middleman extremely
fast and easy.

Recently, we had a new customer who was so excited to find our product that he
sent over his company chat logs that showed their process of struggling to find
a solution, and then discovering FormKeep.

We think it perfectly encapsulates what makes FormKeep great. 

This (very lightly edited and partially anonymized) transcript is posted with their permission:

> **fj** So I set up the Wufoo account. I can leave it to you guys to customize it. Is that cool?
> 
> **oren** Yes, let’s start with a free account to make sure it works well?
> 
> **vadim** Ok so: Wufoo is a bit of a pain in the ass.
> 
> **oren** Huh how come?
> 
> **vadim** You can't just use their API, you have to use their form.
> 
> **oren** What’s wrong with their form?
> 
> **vadim** You have to go to their site and customize their form and style it to look like what we want.
> 
> **oren** You can’t css normally?
> 
> **vadim** You can say ‘custom css theme’ and then just write your own css but you have to deal with their markup.
> 
> **oren** How bad can it be?
> 
> **vadim** You have a look, just login to our account.
> 
> **oren** So to be clear, I can write css for it in the usual css file and just address their divs and crappy markup?
> 
> **vadim** It is not that easy because our css file needs to be available online.
> 
> **vadim** And right now it is not hosted anywhere.
> 
> **oren** Oh. Damn. The alternative is to style it with their UI?
> 
> **vadim** Or to find a service where we can provide our own markup. Let me do some research.
> 
> **vadim** THIS IS WHAT WE WANT: [https://formkeep.com/](https://formkeep.com/?utm_source=giant-robots&utm_medium=blog-post&utm_campaign=formkeep-feels-your-pain)
> 
> **vadim** (at least I think so)
> 
> **fj** Cool.
> 
> **oren** lgtm
> 
> **vadim** Guys I just set up a contact form with FormKeep in 2 min. AS IT SHOULD BE.
> 
> **oren** Nice.
> 
> **oren** They knew our pain.
> 
> **vadim** Pushed working form.
> 
> **fj** Wow, that’s sweet.
> 
> **vadim** Guys, FormKeep is $25/month for commercial use. I really really like them. They made the form site that the world deserves. It is unlimited (because limiting form submission is total bullshit pricing strategy).
> 
> **fj** $25 a month is fine.

If you need a form for your static site,
[FormKeep](https://formkeep.com/?utm_source=giant-robots&utm_medium=blog-post&utm_campaign=formkeep-feels-your-pain)
will have you up and running in 2 minutes. No ugly markup, JavaScript, iframes,
or CSS overrides. Submissions to your form can fire emails, trigger a webhook
to a custom URL, or be forwarded through our Zapier integration to Slack,
Trello, Salesforce, and hundreds of other apps.

[Get your first form now](https://formkeep.com/?utm_source=giant-robots&utm_medium=blog-post&utm_campaign=formkeep-feels-your-pain
)!

P.S. You can see the contact form discussed in the transcript at [Imply](http://imply.io/?utm_source=giant-robots-blog). Scroll to the bottom and inspect the contact form's source.