Posted by on Friday, February 12th, 2010 at 6:13 pm.
In this week’s web design video blog, Nick and James discuss the results from Google’s Webmaster Quiz and tie in some of the answers to previous video blogs. This week’s web design tutorial is how to create a basic fading image slideshow in Flash using tweens. Our video concludes our weekly website tip for business owners.
This week’s web design news
Hi and welcome to this week’s web design video blog. You may have remembered a couple of weeks ago, we highlighted a quiz for webmasters that Google released on their Webmaster Central Blog.
The authors of the quiz have recently released the answers and they can be found on their follow up blog post at googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.
Even if you didn’t take the quiz, the answers are well worth looking at particularly if you are interested in SEO and how Google explores your websites.
This week’s web design tutorial
For this week’s web design tutorial, we’ve been asked by X1F1 to demonstrate how to create a basic fading image slideshow. You can download the supporting files featured in the video by clicking here.
Website tips for businesses #4
Last week we shared our third website tip for business owners -- how to reduce spam emails being sent from your website’s contact form. In continuation from last week; tip number 4 is how to prevent your email address being harvested from your website by Spam Bots.
As we discussed last week, Spam Bots are automated computer programs that crawl the internet looking for opportunities to send unsolicited spam, and to harvest email addresses for mailing lists.
Aside from tripping contact forms, Spam Bots are also designed to identify visible email addresses on websites. If your email address is visible, in real text on any of your web pages, then it is detectable and available for Spam Bots to collect.
Your email address may then be added and sold in mailing lists that are used to send spam emails promoting products and services that are available on the internet that you are more than likely not interested in.
So our advice is quite simply not have any visible reference to your email address on your website. If you wish to avoid spam, you should solely rely on having a simple, user friendly contact form that won’t give Spam Bots direct access to your email address.
Website visitors usually prefer to complete an enquiry form rather than going to the trouble of loading up their email client.
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