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Protecting contact email addresses

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Email spam is a huge problem across the internet, with it easily forming the majority of all sent messages. Web designers know that putting email contact details into webpages puts that address right at the mercy of spammers.

I’m pleased to have stumbled across a neat solution to this problem today, and just wanted to promote this free encryption service from the guys at UK Secure Web Hosting .

This clever form generates Javascript that you paste into your webpage source code – disguising your email address from bots, whilst keeping functionality for your users.

Making notes in HTML and CSS

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Building web pages can be confusing. Working with other people’s code can be doubly so. A good habit to get into is to add notes to your work. This could be to break your CSS into logical groups (Header, Image, Copy , Footer) or perhaps to explain exactly what that complicated-looking piece of Javascript actually does.

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