With over 5,000 accounts created and growing, we realized that we were long overdue for a place our users could go to and share their Wufoo experiences. Thanks to some PunBB ingenuity and a little sweat on our part, we’re happy to introduce the Wufoo Forums.

In addition to a Troubleshooting area to ask help from other Wufooers and a place to ask for Feature Requests, you’ll find a regularly updated Change Log of the improvements we’re making to Wufoo, a place to show off your Wufoo Forms and Reports, and a way to share Tips & Tricks with other people on how to use Wufoo in new and interesting ways!

If you can’t tell, we’re really excited about starting a community. Wufoo is awesome because everyone helps us make it awesome. With all the great feedback we’ve received in the last few weeks, we have no doubts that it’s our users who are going to help us make Wufoo the best it can be.

We’ve had some internal debates and looked at the feedback from our users over the default behavior of our Multiple Choice field (or radio inputs to you Web Developers out there). Right now, when you make a radio group (called Multiple Choice in the builder), and do not select a default option, we automatically make the first option the default for you. One of the main reasons we do this is because of the W3C:

At all times, exactly one of the radio buttons in a set is checked. If none of the <INPUT> elements of a set of radio buttons specifies `CHECKED’, then the user agent must check the first radio button of the set initially. View

In addition to the W3C, various user interface books we have come across stress the importance of making one option selected by default. The “proper” way to make a radio group would be similar to below:

What is your favorite day?

• New Years
• 4th of July
• Thanksgiving
• None of the above

In that example, “None of the above” would be set to default. You can also use “Other”, or if the data is numerical you can do “Greater than” or “Less than.” The reasoning behind this is that it always gives the user an out in case they accidentally clicked one of the selections.

Now, even though the way Wufoo currently handles radio buttons is “right,” we’re not so sure it makes things easier for our users. For example, consider a multiple choice test you take in school. Most of the time, there is no “All of the above” answer. The student is left to pick one of four choices, and none of those choices are pre selected. In fact, a pre selected choice may even place bias on that choice.

We wanted to open up our internal discussions, and get your feedback. Should we automatically select a default radio button for you, or should the radio group load with no radio button selected?

As expected, launch was both exciting and rough. With thousands of signups and an Alexa ranking of around 2000, we experienced a few server crashes and headaches. Yesterday afternoon, we switched over our primary server to a brand new box, and began to see some progress. We’ve been working around the clock with BitPusher to examine different scenarios and minimize downtime. While we are going through these growing pains, we thank you for your patience and sincerely apologize for any inconvenience.

On a happier note, when we weren’t stressing over server issues, we did manage to get some heavily requested code fixes/features implemented. For now, I’ll post them here, but in the future we will have a change log for this sort of documentation.

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• When you add and remove field columns from the grid, the fields are now ordered by their position on the form instead of the order they were created in.

• Datagrid settings are now stored in cookies. So, when you add and remove columns they will be remembered for the next time you come back to the page. Expect page number and sorting history to come soon, as well as all of this functionality to the reports section.

• Deleting an entry now properly deletes all files associated with that entry.

Admin Only Fields

• Name, Address, and Checkboxes now save properly when flagged as admin only.

• When submissions are emailed to you, they are now correctly formatted when admin only fields are involved.

Form Builder

• When using a free account, you should now be able to edit fields even when you have reached your max limit of 10.

Thanks to all of you Wufooers out there — keep the bug reports and suggestions coming in!

After moving to Silicon Valley, 6 months of development, and many many caffeinated beverages, we’re proud to announce that Wufoo has launched and is open to the public.

Wufoo is an Internet application that helps anybody build amazing online forms. When you design a form with Wufoo, it automatically builds the database, backend and scripts needed to make collecting and understanding your data easy, fast and fun. Because we host everything, all you need is a browser, an Internet connection and a few minutes to build a form and start using it right away.

These were some of the most intense months of our lives and we thank our family, friends, investors, beta testers, the community, and the corner store that was open late and had an endless supply of Sunkist for helping us make it out alive.

Hey everyone! Welcome to the Wufoo Blog! We’re not exactly sure what’s going to be going on in this space, but we’re pretty excited about it nonetheless. What we do know is that this will be a space where you can get official news on Wufoo’s development and also about how you can get the most out of your Wufoo experience. Yes, there will be some behind-the-scenes stuff. And yes, it’s going to be a lot of fun.

Anyways, welcome and happy form making!