Doculicious.com Launch FAQ

nospam@example.com (Chris Carpenter) — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:15:26 +0000

A fun doculicious example

nospam@example.com (Chris Carpenter) — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:46:26 +0000

With the launch of Doculicious.com I thought I'd take the opportunity to post a couple of examples of how it looks and works on an external site.

The original launch article has an example of a business/government form, but I also want to show a more graphical and fun one. The following is an Award Certificate that can be used for many types of occasions. The border, flower decoration and title images are all changeable, just click them to choose a different image.

This is one of the free awards certificate templates on doculicious.com, so with even just a free account you can copy this and change bits around and put it on your own site or blog. You could create more border and text images to have it work for whatever type of award you like.

<div style="margin-bottom: 20px;">Your browser does not support frames, so you can't complete this form here. However, you can <a href="http://www.doculicious.com/img/screenshots/2b9d83ae0a087d5e.pdf">click here to download a PDF file of this form</a></div>
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Launch of www.doculicious.com!

nospam@example.com (Chris Carpenter) — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:04:42 +0000

I'm happy to finally announce the launch of our new web application, www.doculicious.com. It's been under development for the past couple of months, and is a great enhancement on the underlying technology that we've used to build our previous applications.

Doculicious is similar to our previous sites in that it allows people to create documents in their browser, the difference is that we've opened it up so that anyone can create templates and embed them on their own websites.

Because of it's support of PDF, Doculicious is perfectly placed to offer solutions similar to what a PDF file solves, and together with it's web based delivery, it can act like a web form too. We've chosen to focus on this idea of merging a web form and a PDF file, and allow the editing of a document directly in the browser using easy and simple fields, just like a web form. It's an alternative to offering a PDF download that offers many other benefits.

A Doculicious template provides a downloadable PDF, but only after the user has filled in the fields - so the PDF is complete and ready to print, fax, mail or whatever else may be required. After the form is filled out we store the details that were entered and make it accessible to the form owner. This means it can be processed straight away, the data will have less mistakes, there's no retyping or handwriting to read and it's exportable as CSV or as the original PDF. The form owner can go in and edit or add details themselves. There's also integrated notifications, redirection after submissions, editable confirmation pages and you can make unique styles for each template, allowing you to make them match any design. Templates can also be made with a tracking code so when the PDF is printed and sent back, it's easy to match up with the data in the system.

We're really happy with the current system, but we have many features we want to add, and plan on working with our existing and new clients to keep making Doculicious better.

Doculicious has a free account that gives almost all the functionality listed above (styles and redirection are the only premium features), so if you have a need for a PDF application form, or a form where you'd like the data in PDF format, or even just a standard web form, give it a try or at least check out the example page and see just a few ways it can be used www.doculicious.com

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Doculicious.com Launch FAQ

A fun doculicious example

Launch of www.doculicious.com!