Two Easy Ways to Hide Your Email Address on a Web Site
Posted on May 2, 2011 - Filed Under Web Site Tips | Leave a Comment
For Web site owners and bloggers, spam bots are a real pain. These Web crawlers troll the Internet looking for unsuspecting email addresses. Spammers then use this information to bombard addresses with appendage enlargement advertisements and shady business opportunities.
If you are concerned with the amount of spam generated by placing your email addresses on your Web site or blog, yet still want your visitors to have a way to contact you, concealing your email address from non-human eyes is a must. Here are two easy ways:
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Embed a Photo Editor into Your Web Site
Posted on January 20, 2011 - Filed Under Web Site Tips | Leave a Comment
Online photo editors are great quick-fix tools for rotating, resizing, cropping and removing red-eye. The ease and simplicity of these editors make them some of the most popular tools among Web users of all skill levels.
For Web masters who have considered adding photo editing to their Web sites, Aviary offers a free photo editor widget that integrates easily into any Web page.
To generate a code that will embed a custom photo editor, click the yellow Get the Embed Code button on the right of the page.
Create HTML Data Entry Forms the Easy Way
Posted on January 18, 2011 - Filed Under Web Site Tips | Leave a Comment
Forms are one of the easiest and quickest ways to obtain information from Web site visitors. However, most forms take at least a small amount of programming skills to create.
Even without programming knowledge, if your Web site has a PHP server, you can create a form in just a few minutes with HTMLForm.com. Once created, only two files must be installed to your Web server for the form to work properly.
Click the Start Now button on the homepage to begin building your form.
Use Yahoo Clues to Discover Search Query Demographics
Posted on January 13, 2011 - Filed Under Blogging, Web Site Tips | Leave a Comment
Most bloggers must stay aware of trending topics, especially with their target reader market. Twitter is a good place to do this, but Yahoo Search Clues offers a different way of looking at topic trends.
Yahoo Clues shares market demographics about virtually any search query. One of the most popular queries this week was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, at least according to Yahoo.
3 Quick and Easy Apps for Creating a Facebook Fan Page
Posted on January 5, 2011 - Filed Under Web Site Tips | Leave a Comment
Building an interactive, unique Facebook Fan Page for your blog or business is a great way to attract and communicate with customers. This piece of branding is becoming an essential element for most business, organizations, and even television shows.
Facebook fan pages are easier to set up than they look. Sure, the more advanced pages feature CSS style sheets and custom FBML (Facebook Markup Language) designs… but even with no knowledge of Web programming whatsoever, with a few third-party apps, anyone can build a functioning fan page.
How to Add bbPress Forums to a WordPress Blog with Godaddy or cPanel
Posted on December 6, 2010 - Filed Under Web Site Tips | Leave a Comment
Adding forums to your WordPress blog is a great way to provide feedback for your visitors as well as allow them to get help from each other. Often times, it’s hard for webmasters to find time to reply to every single help request.
By allowing visitors to help each other, they will be able to find solutions quickly and easily. Although the comments section works great for feedback some of the time, forums add that extra layer to your blog.