sarab wrote:
Thanks again, all (and especially Bluefrog this time).
Some of the stuff you've written has made me rethink what I'm doing on my own site, and I know Jennifer's planning some reworks, now she's gotten over me submitting her site to critiques!
One question bluefrog -- the email addresses were put in to be specific to the page contents. I argued with Jennifer that she should have a Contact page, but she was adamant about doing it this way. What I don't understand is why this approach would be more prone to spam than email links on a Contact page? Am I missing something? And is there a technical way to get around this hassle of spam?
The titles code is what the WYSIWYG editor that Jen uses puts in. We don't know how to avoid that. Are there programs that would strip such messy stuff out? We'd love to be slick enough to use a 'proper' page editor, but that's for the future, unfortunately.
Oh, and the bit about the alt text for images... We thought that if someone had images disabled then 'xxx button' would make more sense than just 'xxx'. Are we way off beam there? If so, that's something else I'll have to fix on my own site also.
Thanks again, all, for the great feedback. We can't believe all the help we're getting. It's like Christmas in February!
And sorry about the 'just one question' bluefrog. Once I get started, I do go on a bit!
Sara
PS Pity about all the off-topic stuff about dyslexia. I certainly never thought it was put up there as a joke, and am sad that anybody would think it was. Ah, well...
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Email Addresses:
Never actually post one online. Use a form and an email component to send the mail. There are LOTS of posts here about email components. Some are free (Jmail) and some are not. My favorite is Persits because it works really well and is highly functional far beyond what most people need, but I do.
There are programs that "spider" the internet looking for email addresses to send spam to. If you post your email address, get ready. Some nitwit posted my support email address and now I get a ton of Korean porn spam. I'm aching to DDOS the site it is for...
I've posted other technical links in the forums here on how to avoid spam. Search for "spam" in the forums on my user name and you'll eventually find it.
For the WYSIWYG thing, don't worry about it. You don't want to have to get too messy doing hand coding. Hand coding is much better if you can do it, but it is not necessary.
Regarding ALT properties, people who use LYNX or other text only / image diabled broswers will understand what it is. You don't need to tell them it is a button because they don't really care. They only want to know the link itself.
And Merry Christmas
There are a lot of very knowledgable people in this forum who are willing to help out. Take advantage of it and join the party ~!