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Quick question when making 'contact form' pages?

by Sea Eagle
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Still a newbie... had a small question about setting up a 'contact form' for my Contact Us Page.

If I create a page within my site with a contact form - one of the tabs obviously needs a 'reply to email'.

Now if that person types in a fake return email or accidently mispells his email, would there be a way to check this before I *waste* my time replying to his question?

If not is there a way around this?
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  • Profile picture of the author Peter01
    If you use something like Wufoo for forms you can verify the email address.
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    • Profile picture of the author Sea Eagle
      Also... does anyone find it unprofessional if the contact page of a website you want to do business with didn't have a proper form but the email address written as "support [at] domain.com" ...to prevent spam issues?
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      • Profile picture of the author sparkman
        Originally Posted by gabby6480 View Post

        Also... does anyone find it unprofessional if the contact page of a website you want to do business with didn't have a proper form but the email address written as "support [at] domain.com" ...to prevent spam issues?
        Yes, this looks very unprofessional. The way around it is to use a graphic instead.

        Fire up Photoshop and create a document with the same background color and font as your contact us page, and type out the address. Save it and place the graphic on the page. Voila. It's invisible to email scrapers.
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  • Profile picture of the author Revenant45
    To prevent spam, make sure you use form validation in your HTML AND (meaning "in addition to") use CAPTCHA or ReCAPTCHA for your form mail -- both are free. Go to tectite.com and learn a little bit about it.
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  • Profile picture of the author indianbill007
    Am well versed with the In and outs of such pages. Hit me up
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  • Profile picture of the author haymanpl
    You don't need a reply to email tab. You just need a contact tab and then insert the tag using contact form 7 which is the most popular contact form plugin. You can add a capchta when you configure the form and place the tag anywhere on your site.
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