Keeping the bond between you and your readers/clients alive is the key to success when talking about Web-based businesses, but that’s only the second part of it. Even harder is to create that close relationship I mentioned above, and while I can’t really help you with that one, I am sure that a contact form can help you keeping it all alive…
… despite the fact we’re talking about a piece of code that seems to have reached the end of its days, unfortunately. Well, the good part is that LightForm is still a very useful piece of code, and so I hope it won’t fall into oblivion anytime soon.
LightForm is a free Ajax/PHP contact form that brings together FormCheck 1.2(MIT license) for the validation parts, and NiceForms(no specific licensing terms) to style text areas and fields. Since it even includes a basic spam protection method, I think it should come in handy for a lot of people, but the problem is that, as I said, LightForm reached its final version, and no future releases will arrive. Even more, any kind of support from its programmer is also out of question…
… so if you can live with all the bad things above, you should give LightForm a try. To me, it really looks like a contact form script worth trying, especially since it’s free and has spam protection, the two thing I can’t live without when it comes to contact forms. Oh, yeah, the additional code coming with the components mentioned above is covered by the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution v2.5 license!
Compatibility: as long as your visitors are using a JavaScript-capable browser, everything should be fine, so adding a warning about script blockers in your contact page could be a good idea (demo available here)
