FAIRLY NEW TO CODING - Need help with VERIFYING the reCaptcha widget

Good morning everyone! Okay so I'm still brand new to coding and I'm trying to teach myself which, as you can imagine, can be a nightmare at times...  Anyway, here's my dilemma... I have a website with a contact page that apparently got hacked and now I get 10-15 spam messages every day from the same source telling me to buy cheap Nike NFL Jerseys from Japan....  If I don't get that one, then I get one that has all kinds of hex codes and other unreadable garbage in it... After doing some extensive reading, it seems the best possible way to stop or slow the incoming spam would be to put a captcha thingy on my contact form; recaptcha being the easiest it seems...  I am using webformmailer.php from GoDaddy (mainly because I have no idea how to program my own yet)...   I have figured out how to generate the key and I've even figured out how to put the 'I'm not a robot' captcha check box thingy on my contact form...  What I CAN'T figure out is how to verify that the person actually clicks the button.  I tried to submit a test form without clicking the button and it still goes through.  How to I STOP the form from submitting by telling the person filling it out that the captcha needs to be checked? I appreciate any help anyone can provide.  Again, please try to keep it somewhat layman's terms.  I'm not completely code illiterate but as I said, I'm just learning.  :) Thanks in advance!!  :) Ed -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "reCAPTCHA" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to recaptcha+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to recaptcha@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://bit.ly/1dkFnYd. For more options, visit http://bit.ly/P65DvS.