Comment form and email form spam are problems that I’m sure every webmaster has experienced. Many have resorted to the use of CAPTCHAs and other such puzzles to tell legitimate users from spam-bots, but these puzzles are usually a hassle for users to solve. A better option is to use an anti-spam field that is hidden from users with CSS, but which a spam-bot will see and fill out.
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Tutorial: Hassle-free anti-spam using CSS
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010Thoughts on using copyrighted images
Monday, June 21st, 2010When I first discovered and read Jem’s post about copyright violation a year or two ago, I didn’t really pay it any attention. I acknowledged that I may have been breaking some copyright laws and that I could, in theory, get in trouble for it. But so were hundreds of other webdesign hobbyists, and I [...]
Tutorial: Quick and easy div layouts
Saturday, July 21st, 2007My sense is that, for some reason, most people have a tendency to code div layers layouts by using an <img> tag at the beginning of the <body> of the document for the header image, and then using absolute positioning to place the main content area and sidebar(s) in their appropriate locations. This method is flawed in that, in the absence of a stylesheet (as may be the case when viewing the website on an older browser), the header image still shows up, causing the page to look quite ugly (example). This is especially annoying if your header image has a large height. A better solution is to use a div image replacement, as I have done in ain’t afraid to die, featuring Dir en grey. I will use this layout as an example.
