Spam, The Stuff You Love To Hate

Written by Jeff Colburn


We all get spam, and we all hate it. I always thought it would be great if I could open some spam, press a button on my computer and have a zillion volts of electricity shoot throughrepparttar phone lines allrepparttar 105964 way torepparttar 105965 computer that sentrepparttar 105966 spam and turn it into a smoldering pile of metal and plastic.

Before I made a few changes I used to get about 2,500 spam EVERY DAY! Now I only get about 250. Still a lot, but only 10% of what I used to get.

Learning how to do this for your own website, and your clients' websites, will make you a hero in everyone's eyes.

So let's talk about some ofrepparttar 105967 things you can do to cut back on your spam.

One ofrepparttar 105968 things I did to reduce my spam was to removerepparttar 105969 "Catch All" setting on my web hosting company. A "Catch All" does just that. It catches all e-mail sent to your domain name, in my case that would be Anything@CreativeCauldron.com, which would include JeffColburn@CreativeCauldron.com, Giggles@CreativeCauldron.com, PinkElephants@CreativeCauldron.com and so on. Any e-mail address that ended with @CreativeCauldron.com was grabbed by my hosting company's e-mail program and sent to me.

When you removerepparttar 105970 "Catch All," you need to tellrepparttar 105971 e-mail program what e-mail addresses to send to you. Many people just use Info@DomainName.com. You can add more whenever you want, butrepparttar 105972 more e-mail address you haverepparttar 105973 more spam you will receive. No longer receiving 2,250 e-mails a day really helped my sanity and reduced my stress levels.

To reduce my spam even more, I set up filters in my e-mail program. These filters automatically move any e-mails intorepparttar 105974 delete folder that meetrepparttar 105975 criteria I set. I can then quickly scan this folder to see if something wound up in there that I really want to read. Some ofrepparttar 105976 words I set up inrepparttar 105977 filters include various body parts, mortgage, meds, and other similar words. I actually have over 50 words inrepparttar 105978 filters, with new ones being added allrepparttar 105979 time. Be careful what you use for filters though. Maybe you've been getting spam about growing some part of your body. You could put "grow" in a filter, but if you run a gardening website you may have people sending you legitimate e-mails about growing plants. With "grow" as one of your filters, then these legitimate e-mails would go to your delete folder. Along these same lines, many filters will prevent you from receiving ezines you have subscribed to, some kind of ads you want and more. So be careful.

You can also use forms on your website to let people contact you. Just create a form whererepparttar 105980 person can put in their name, e-mail address and a short message. They click onrepparttar 105981 Send button and off it goes. The software that harvests e-mail addresses can't get your e-mail address fromrepparttar 105982 form. At least, not yet. To make your form more secure you can use NateMail at http://www.mindpalette.com/formprocessing/index.php to process your form. There's a free version and a paid ($15) version.

Are Web Templates Aimed to Exterminate the ‘Web Stars’?

Written by Maricon Williams


Sincerepparttar arrival of web templates, there has been an unwritten haunch that plaguedrepparttar 105963 Net. Many businesses and companies have turned to these templates to be aided for a less costly web design. Compared to sums which were then paid to web designers, only a diminutive portion of it is spent. Thus, it entails a great amount of savings. Nevertheless, how sure are these venturers that they are gettingrepparttar 105964 precise and effective web design that they can get?

First things first, web templates are ready-made layout or design boxes for your website. Usually, it includes an original PhotoShop design. After that, it is sliced using Fireworks file. Slicing is utilized to separaterepparttar 105965 graphics fromrepparttar 105966 sole image. The reason for this is to easily combinerepparttar 105967 graphics with html to produce a website. Web templates generally come in various themes and designs. They are easy to download and edit. It is believed that web templates ensure a smooth ride all along.

Recently, numerous testimonials have invadedrepparttar 105968 Net. Satisfied customers boostrepparttar 105969 advantage of choosing web templates over web designers. The ultimate reason is that it is not time-consuming. You can instantly build your web site in a couple of hours. Plusrepparttar 105970 fact that it is not exorbitant. It saves time and money. That is really amazing dual advantage! Thus, it is not surprising that many people are rushing over torepparttar 105971 new alternative available.

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