Sponsor |  digits | Feb 17, 3:14pm | Rhiever - I would ABSOLUTELY take your email OFF the bottom of your page. There are email address harvesters that crawl the web looking for email addresses to add to their database in which to spam you.
1. Either make a small .gif so the person would have manually input your email address into their email client.
2. Invest in the coding to get a form to email script on your site - with a captcha check.
3. Obsfucate your email address here: Enkoder - then when you insert the code into your HTML it will render precisely as it looks now. The only difference is that the email crawlers will not recognize the email because it's encoded. |
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 |  3807889 | Feb 17, 11:58pm | I like the layout, but it really needs some pizazz. It's missing something, and if you're using it for a design business, or portfolio, it needs to grab the attention. First impression was that it was a plain text page.
I agree about the email. Sit back and wait for the endless spam to arrive.
I have a great little script on my page which I aquired from here
w2.syronex.com/jmr/safemailto/ [w2.syronex.com/jmr/safemailto/]
I get much less spam than I used to. |
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Sponsor | | jyodis | Feb 18, 11:45am | Rhiever - Yes, submitting to Google, for example is pointless and unecessary. Get some outside links and you'll be fine. Just one or two links from sites already in their index, and you'll start showing up (then you work on other stuff mentioned and build a better foundation).
I like the new look. Try a dark grey or some other background, it will contrast with the white and focus people on your information.
I would change your navigation too. Try in all caps maybe. Or different font/color, not sure but you want to differentiate it from the body text.
Also, what's up with the redirect? Just have an index page. |
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|  ben76213 | Feb 18, 12:10pm | Wow.. Is this a critique or a guide to how to make a web site? :D
Nice tips!
/ben76213 |
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|  cooltopten | Feb 21, 9:18am | Also you could just make the @ an (at) and the . a(dot) so you get.
user(at)domain(dot)com this will keep most of the bots away.
Any sort of form on a web page will be crawled by spam bots , ive found lately that even a captcha process dosent protect from all bots. |
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|  sicjoy | Feb 21, 12:35pm | I'm quite surprised that bots haven't figured out the whole whosit (at) whatsit (dot) com thing. If I were a harvester bot programmer, and I'm not, I would have that form of obfuscation beat easily. A simple regular expression would suffice.
Some CAPTCHAs are better than others. reCAPTCHA's are first rate and even offer alternatives (audio CAPTCHAs) for deaf people. |
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Sponsor | | digits | Feb 23, 9:15am | | 27. ditto. |
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| | Rhiever | Feb 27, 9:41pm | Once again, thank you to everyone for your comments. They've been incredibly helpful in the development of my web site. :-]
I just put up the latest version of my web site. New layout, new fonts, and more content up and coming.
Tear in to it and/or tell me what I'm doing right now, please!
Randy |
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Sponsor | | digits | Feb 27, 10:00pm | | that looks a lot better randy! good for you for hiding your email address. :) |
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