A simple way to ease spam from forms

Posted by under Programming, jQuery

A common request we get from many of our clients is “How do I stop spam coming through from forms on my website?”. Some client’s sites we have seen can get upto 80-100 spam emails in one day from forms on their website - this of course is very frustrating for them especially when you need to look a bit closer at these emails in case they are a genuine email.

One of the common approaches these days is to use a image verification system (usually called Captcha) but this can become very  annoying for an end user especially when it is difficult to read. Plus, these forms are usually enquiry/contact forms which are very critical to help generate sales for the client so making them unattractive and difficult to a end user can reduce the number of enquiries sent. Read the rest of this entry »

Validate multiple forms with same class with jQuery Validator

Posted by Lee under Programming, jQuery

Ran into a very frustrating problem today whilst developing a dynamic form generator for Breeze CMS - we needed the jQuery Validator plugin (worth the download!) to be able to validate multiple forms (that had the same content) but the fun part was that we don’t know how many forms there would be. I thought it would be as simple as setting a common class for the forms and attaching the validate function to them but it wasn’t. Read the rest of this entry »

Get HREF attribute keeps on returning absolute link not relative link

Posted by Lee under Programming, jQuery

Whilst working on our new Image Manager in Breeze we came across an interesting bug that was causing images to be incorrectly linked to in the editor due to Internet Explorer (IE6 & IE7 intermittently) returning the wrong HREF value for a link. Read the rest of this entry »