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I was at a Surrey Drupal Users Group meeting and I asked How can I modify the title of the default Drupal contact form? Darren suggested that I create my own custom contact form using the module called Webform.(http://drupal.org/project/webform) That way I can save all the submitted data in the database for future reference. And I can customize the name of the form plus take advantage of other customizations.

The benefits of creating custom contact form using Webform module.
1. All data submitted is saved in your database for future reference.

Lisa from North Vancouver emailed me this question:

Q. I have noticed on the two Drupal sites I've developed so far that the universal contact form draws a great deal of spam email. I've tried the captcha module, using the image captcha as well as the mathematical question version. Neither of these approaches have stopped or prevented the influx of spam occurrences. I was wondering how you approach your clients contact forms for this issue?

And here is my response:

Troubleshooting

Task: recreate live site on desktop server for development purposes

Problem: clean urls not working

1. Make sure that mod_rewrite is enabled on your server
Go to httpd.conf file and uncomment this line:
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

2. If you copied all the files from the live site directly to your local server, you may have
copied over the .htaccess file as well. This file applies specifically to your live server so it

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2. Marinelli

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