If you've read our previous blog post on fighting spam on Business Catalyst websites, you may have found the standard issue CAPTCHA image a bit bland:

We recommend changing the colour of the capture image to suit the design/theme of your website.

BC CAPTCHAs Can Be Coloured?!

Yes, indeed!! A quick delve into BC's Reference Guide reveals the options available for styling the CAPTCHA image.

If you're a BC user who doesn't mind getting stuck in at a code level, changing the colours of the CAPTCHA image is easy!

In the BC Admin:

1. Navigate to Site Manager > Web Forms
2. Select the form you want to customise
3. Click the More Actions tab > Customize Web Form
4. Click the HTML tab at the bottom of the editor window
5. Locate {module_captchav2} and insert the required parameters

Available options are:

• Background Colour
• Foreground (text) Colour
• Width
• Height

Syntax is as follows (default values included):

If you're not comfortable editing at a code level (or simply lack the time) and would like coloured CAPTCHA implemented on your website, let us know.