New Ajax Contact Form
I realized a few days ago that I didn’t have a contact form on my site. The only way that people could get a hold of me was to comment on a post, there was no general purpose contact feature.
Over the past few days I threw together a rudimentary contact form (see the link on the right side of the page). I wanted to use ajax to do it, so I went looking for an easy javascript ajax library. I didn’t want some huge solution with tons of features, all I wanted was a simple, cross browser way to send and receive some ajax requests.
I found this one called “Simple Ajax“, and I figured that would be the perfect one for me, given the name :) For some reason though, it was more difficult to get setup than I would have thought. The javascript code didn’t seem to work, so I had to go in a modify it a bit, but I think it’s all good now. I like the fact that this library uses JSON to return data from the server rather than parsing xml.
I know the form isn’t too pretty, I’ll probably try to dress it up a bit later, but for now I just wanted to get something out there.
Let me know if you notice anything wrong with it. I suppose you’ll have to leave a comment to get a hold of me 
Rett said,
Wrote on August 19, 2006 @ 1:43 pm
I searched for the same thing a couple weeks back and ended up using this one:
http://jamietalbot.com/wp-hacks/holler/
only because it is a simple plugin to wordpress. Check it out on my site here:
http://www.rettmartin.com/contact-rett/
ben said,
Wrote on August 19, 2006 @ 2:08 pm
Yeah, when you added your form is actually when I first realized that I didn’t have one
Rett said,
Wrote on August 19, 2006 @ 7:36 pm
it looks great now, I like how it pops on top of the page. Well done chap.
Jason said,
Wrote on March 18, 2007 @ 10:37 pm
Hey, sorry about the setup problems, I’ll look into that. (I was hoping to alleviate headaches associated with learning AJAX, and still have some modifications I want to make with the javascript)