Most free web hosting services doesnt allow users to have the PHP mail() function as long as users do not upgrade thier account so its gonna be annoying for users who already installed a blogging tool like wordpress , i used to have the same problem , and i had to de-activate many options , like de-activate receiving an email each time a visitor post a comment and also contact forms did not work it was really a mess .
i searched through google so many times , read many articles till i found a great plugin which is Cimy Swift SMTP by Marco Cimmino. Cimy Swift Smtp allows your wordpress blog to send emails via smtp compatible with GMAIL .
So if you are using wordpress as blogging tool and your PHP mail() disabled then all you have to do is :

1. Downlaod Cimy Swift Smtp Plugin and Install it
2. Register an account at Gmail.
3. follow the instructions to activate your Cimy Swift SMTP Plugin and fill the requried blankets

Imporatnt Notes :

• I`m not quite sure it supports contact forms plugins as long as some avaiable contact forms depends on the PHP mail() function
• if you wanna have a contact form for your blog , you should try cforms plugin by Oliver Seidel, ,the new versions of cforms ,starting from version 7.5 has an option to use external smtp server and simply you can use the same smtp server you are using for Cimy swift SMTP.

At the end this article was wriiten for newbie bloggers whois mainly using free web hosting service where PHP mail() function disabled.

well i wonder how many users are using IE and how many users are using Firefox , for sure firefox users increasing daily , but we can not ignore people who still browsing the internet through thier basic operating system browser which is IE in windows, and i saw many blogs using java script to detect visiotr broswer so if the user browsing the site by IE , he/she will see a message telling him/her that its better to browse the site by firefox or any other browser and honestly that will not help , cause you can not enforce visitors to do that just to browse your site while they have no idea about what is firefox , beleive that more than 70% of people still using IE , so what you are going to do if you blog is working real great while browsing it with firefox and suddenly when you try to browse it with IE you find a real mess !! , that happens with most bloggers mainly the ones who has no idea about Web Designing , i had the same problem few days ago after i finished working on my poll plugin on the sidebar everything looked fine but opps it was not fine with IE , so what to do ?? , i learnt something few years ago , that most websites styling depends on CSS , and adding special elements or hacking CSS file may not help you to validate your CSS file so the simplest way is to create a special CSS file for IE to fix the bugs , add the new CSS file after modifying the elements which cause your site to look messy in IE , commonly IE causes messy look due to problems in the width or the position of specific element , Here is an example you can check the poll area on my sidebar it looks real fine in both Firefox and IE but i had to change that poll element style from 205 px to 202 px for IE broswer so my sidebar can float to the left correctly .

So if you are having a problem in your blog with IE :

• Create a new CSS file , call it whatever you want for example ie.css and
• Add the new CSS file to your header as shown below in the screen shoot
• Find the elements causing your site to look messy in IE and modify them

Trust me it will not be easier than this , i use this method and its effective but there is a still other method which are more effective but still hard to be used , like using java script , java script can work easily with simple html pages but its hard to embedding java in php , i`m talking about myself and i said iam not a web desinger neither a php coder .