i am dustin diaz

Screencast 05: Build your own Ajax Contact form in less than 15 minutes

Today I felt the "mini" effect as the result of a second-hand digging from a website called miniajax (I thought about this intro sentence for all of about two minutes). Today that website was dugg. There is a link directly at the top of that page linking to my Ajax Contact Form I wrote near a year and a half ago of July '05. I thought to myself... "wow, that darn thing is still kickin.'" Then it occurred to me, that it would probably be a good idea just to show people how to make their own ajax contact form... surely it would only take about 15 minutes.

A challenge unto myself was born. Hence, this screencast. Now let me give you some facts straight up before you watch this. The form built in the video is not spam proof. The goal was to finish something quick and dry (and dirty) in less than 15 minutes. I also played a few sound tracks in the background just so I have a good idea of how much time I had left (probably only entertaining myself).

Nevertheless, a fully functioning, ajax driven, email form was built. Cheers. Hope you enjoy the 'cast :)

Download the Quicktime Version (18 MB | 13 minutes 21 seconds)

If you cannot see the video below: get the DivX Web Player (available for both Win & Mac)