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Results for "contact"
Character Counter: (2006)
The character counter on the contact form is essentially a fairly simple client-side script. Explore the character counter code.

reCAPTCHA (2010)
Fight spam and help digitize books at the same time! Google makes it... well, a whole lot easier than I thought. Here's how I fared.

User Prompts (2010)
I got to thinking about how I don't really make clear that users may use the optional "From" field to provide me a means of replying to their messages. Yet, as an optional field, I couldn't get into the business of using .NET's validation controls. I had to come up with validation that didn't restrict the user's options and operated outside of the framework. Here's how I did it.