While the process is tedious, encrypting your email address in the HTML code frustrates some of the less sophisticated harvesting programs while giving your human visitors easy access to your inbox.

To create a Web page that collects user information, you design a Web form made of HTML code. The form displays a set of questions and text boxes in the user's Web browser.

You can make a Google Form public, or open to respondents or collaborators, by adjusting its sharing settings. Here's how to do it.