Monday, October 8, 2007
Spam Proofing Email Addresses
I need to put an email address on our web page but I don't want to make the address visible to potential Spammers.
Many spammers use software tools called "harvesters" to search for strings of text that follow the format 123@abc.xyz PeaShooter has a built-in defense against this problem. If you need to place an email address or an email link using the ConMan page manager, all you need to do is enter the address in a slightly different way. Replace the '@' symbol with '//at//'. For example
user@ymca.com would be user//at//ymca.com
Peashooter uses Javascript to re-write the address in the correct format for Human users, but the address should be invisible to most email harvesters.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Child Care Locations With Apostrophes, etc.
Why aren't any of my Child Care Locations showing up on the map?
The Child Care Locations map uses a map service provided by Yahoo!. The instructions that tell the map how to position the locations are sent to the Yahoo Map Service using JavaScript. Several characters are special JavaScript, apostrophes (') being one of the more important ones. If your Child Care location uses any of these characters in the name address, or contact information, you may have problems that effect the entire map: ' , " ; : ! @ $ % ^ & * ( )
This issue has been fixed. All special characters will be replaced with an underscore (_).
Solution:
For the moment, the only way to fix this problem is to use only letters, numbers, spaces, hyphens(-) and underscores(_) in your child care locations
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