Create User Friendly Confirmation Pages

Including forms in your website is the best way to get feedback from your visitors. Make sure that your confirmation pages are user friendly.
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:

-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