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Nice one BigFrank! Have a happy day.

Distilling the advice you guys have kindly given, it seems to me that client-side validation is a more convenient way of telling the user he has entered wrong...

Fair do's, Paul, although I wouldn't call Captcha a particularly good user experience! Still looking for some off-the-shelf code...

Having slept on this, a couple of things spring to mind.

While it's obviously good to impose form validation within the web page, surely this will only be effective where the form is filled in...

Cool. I'll go along with all that. Do you know of any oven-ready JS and PHP that will do the job?

Thanks for you advice so far, guys.

BigFrank - on second thoughts, are you saying the barrier should be raised before the data leaves your computer (by using JS), rather than letting PHP sort it out on the server? I can see some sense...

That's what I'm trying to do!



While you were writing I looked up form validation. It's javascript typically asking

has the user left required fields empty?
has the user entered a valid...

Ah! That makes sense. But I have to ask, how many spammers would go to that trouble when they have a zillion other sites to trawl for insecure forms? Now following up with a response to BigFrank...

Ideally not. But how would you generate a random set of questions in HTML? I guess you'd have to write some php script to generate the entire form and send it back to the web page with a new question...

Thanks, Pauland. I can see where you're coming from but...



What software? The whole point is, it would take a human to answer the question. If it was a machine grabbing the code, it is...

Fairly new to this game, I've been reading up on the security risks of using the HTML Form procedure to send an email via the server.

Apparently the most common trick by spammers is to hijack the...

Well, I've had a play with your sample code and have to ask what exactly is its purpose? Forgive me if that sounds rude, but I can't see any difference in behaviour from a plain text box - except...

Hi James. Yes, I only have the basic version. So does that mean I'll never be able to see your code in situ?

Neat. Thanks, Tom.

I'm surprised there is no setting to let a nav bar float while remaining part of the group. Designers must come up against this quite often when creating multi-page sites with...

CTRL-F5 is good, but I came across a strange one yesterday. However many times I force-refreshed the site, one picture refused to update (it was actually an image in the MouseOver layer of a navbar...

Problem: Can't see any "HTML code (head)" buttons. Wherever I look in the various Web Properties tags they are "HTML code (body)" only.

In your xar file, when I click on the placeholder the...

All I can see is "stop updating" (not "repeating"). It then asks if I would like to stop repeating. This produces the symptoms I described - the nav bar is free but doesn't respond to changes in the...

Thanks for the tips, guys. I'm now using iframe, which does the basic job - best if it's just one column of text the width of the page. To format the text, I've written a macro in Word to insert the...

I need to place the navigation bar in a different position on certain pages (higher up, to accommodate a smaller masthead) but whenever I move it, every other navbar on every other page moves too!...

A really useful feature would be allowing a (expandable) text box to be filled with text from a nominated .txt file. People writing articles for your website could simply drop their work into a...