For the longest time people have told you don’t put your email online and use forms instead. That is still good advise but the problem I have with forms is, it takes too darn long to set up. Sometimes all I want to do is set up a page quickly. It is so much simpler when you could drop your email address on the web page.
Enter reCAPTCHA. This is really a cool concept and it kills two birds with one stone. Almost everyone is looking for a captcha solution. If you haven’t come across the term before, a captcha is simply image verification. By using reCAPTCHA, you not only get a great solution for free, you help digitize ebooks. Here’s an excerpt from their website to explain this a little better.
Over 60 million CAPTCHAs are solved every day by people around the world. reCAPTCHA channels this human effort into helping to digitize books from the Internet Archive. When you solve a reCAPTCHA, you help preserve literature by deciphering a word that was not readable by computers.
Ok, you’re probably thinking isn’t that like really hard to do? Don’t I need a programmer or something to implement this on my web site? You could if you wanted to integrate it with say an existing content management system of yours or your existing membership sites. But if you just want a safe way to post your email address on a web site or even email, they’ve already done the work for you.
The following video shows you how to use reCAPTCHA MailHide.
