Hello i want to seek everyone's opinion on this. I see drawback of a contact form on a website as 1 some type in wrong email address 2 some just play around on the form typing letters and sending there may be other drawbacks too Hence is it still okay to have a contact form on a site?
There are more drawbacks - you get bots sending you spam. But I would say yes, you do need a way for customers/visitors to contact you - it makes your site more legitimate and trustworthy in my opinion.
I think it's good to have contact form. You can keep captcha for your contact form so bot can not do anything or no one like to play form which has captcha.
I have implemented a VERY simple custom captcha that filters just about ALL automated scripts - all you do is make a field like: Please enter the word 'blue' in this field: Code (markup): It's that simple, no bot will ever figure that out - I did it on this page for example: http://www.itsgottabered.com/first-page-of-the-internet/ (see down at the bottom) - no bot postings in months.
sure i have other contact information like phone no and email address, i just wanted to know others opinion on having the form. Even with the captcha any one can still type A as name, or anything not useful on the form
Form validators + any type of captcha will do for you (-: For more find form javascripts and PHP captcha script on google
No spam of course, if they don't want to spend time on it =D If the no-bot question is not changing, it will be even easier to break
Like I say, I have had this in place for around 6 months and not had a single bot posting. So I guess they don't want to spend time on it..! They will find it EASIER to circumvent a typical captcha because they have algorithms for the standard ones, whereas a "custom" one, even a dirt-simple one, they don't have a solution for.