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10-03-2009, 01:33 PM #1New Member
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How do I turn my email address into an image?
I started to receive a lot of spam recently from my question site and a friend suggested me that is because I have my email address listed in plain text on my contact page, and that I should turn it into an image instead. How do I turn my email address into an image?
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10-03-2009, 01:47 PM #2Web Hosting Master
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It is fairly easy. Just open MS Paint and write the email in their and save it as a .jpg or .png. Then upload that to your website and use the <img> tag.
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10-03-2009, 04:00 PM #3Web Hosting Master
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10-04-2009, 12:44 PM #4Retired Moderator
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10-04-2009, 01:29 PM #5Junior Guru Wannabe
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Code:<a href="mailto:youremail@address" title="mailto link"><img src="www.imageshack.com/whatever" alt="mailto"></a>
1. <a href mailto tag = your email
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10-04-2009, 01:37 PM #6Junior Guru Wannabe
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Also, since you said you were receiving spam, this wont stop it. It may cut it down but it won't stop. The best way to ensure you wont get spam is to encrypt your mailto links. You really should check out this guy Rob Spangler's neat encryption generator.
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10-04-2009, 01:38 PM #7Aspiring Evangelist
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They can still read the source code using that method and pull out the email address with an automated script. You will be better off setting up a contact form using captcha.
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10-04-2009, 01:43 PM #8Junior Guru Wannabe
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10-04-2009, 09:52 PM #9******* Unleaded
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Most of the bots/crawlers only look for name@example.com or whatever follows "mailto:"
They will stop dead on javascript of any kind, such as
Code:<a href="" title=contact" onclick="this.href=somefunction();return(true);">
An alternative is to just use the jpeg, and let the user type it into their email client.edgedirector.com
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10-05-2009, 12:35 AM #10Web Hosting Master
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10-08-2009, 02:02 AM #11WHT Addict
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Simply use MS Paint and write your email add there, before saving decrease size of your canvas working area according to the width and height of your email add. Save it as jpg file and use <img> tag to call it in your html pages.
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10-08-2009, 12:35 PM #12New Member
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I know this might be a bit redundant but the worst thing to do in a case like this is to post a mailto: link.
There is a little PHP workaround that might help out :
Code:<?php $email = "mymail@mail.com"; header("Location:mailto:".$email); ?>
Hope it helped you..
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10-08-2009, 01:48 PM #13Web Hosting Master
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Just use an image and name the image somethink like hello.png. Don't add your address anywhere in the source. Simple.
The best method is to use form, to simplfy things, and if your using WHMCS you can use there source from the pre-sales contact form.Follow me on Twitter: @conrjac
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