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Archive for June, 2008
Must-Use Methods to Spam-Proof Your Email Address
By Louis Lazaris on June 25th, 2008
Categories: Markup & Style, Scripting, Web Standards & Best Practices | 3 Comments >
Working for a busy web development & hosting company exposes me to the sad fact that well over 90% of website owners today do virtually nothing to protect themselves from email spam. Spam filters are good, and they’ve come a long way, but they are not the perfect solution — far from it. Even with a close to perfect spam filtering system in place (which never happens), users will still be inclined to waste time sifting through junk mail just to ensure that nothing was incorrectly filtered.
In this post, I’ll describe a few solid methods to ensure that your email address will not be harvested by “bots” or other automated programs that harvest emails from naive website owners.
IE6 Ghost Text Bug (With Multiple Solutions)
By Louis Lazaris on June 16th, 2008
Categories: Markup & Style | 9 Comments >
It is a sad fact that, according to W3Schools browser statistics, Internet Explorer version 6 is still holding one of the highest percentages of use for one browser version (28.9% — although I personally think that number is somewhat inflated for reasons that I’ll save for another blog post). Unless the site you are working on has specific stats that show a much lower number for IE6 users, then it is still necessary to ensure that IE6 is displaying your markup reasonably well.
Should a Web Developer Be Concerned With SEO For Client Sites?
By Louis Lazaris on June 6th, 2008
Categories: Internet Marketing & SEO, Markup & Style | 3 Comments >
Every developer knows that SEO is a huge part of online marketing. Freelance designers and programmers spend countless hours optimizing their sites, link building, and validating their pages in order to get noticed, or to get to the “top of the heap”, as they say.
