E-Mail Obfuscator

                      Reviewed by Sue

A friend of mine found recently that since getting his own web
site, he was receiving a lot more junk mail. I've been fortunate
in that in the couple of years that the SynTax site has been up I
haven't been similarly affected (I'm probably going to regret
saying that!).

It's one of the annoying facts of life that some spammers extract
email addresses from web pages using special software.  Luckily
there's a way round it. E-Mail Obfuscator is a handy online tool
which is compatible with all the major browsers.  You can find it
at www.codehouse.com/online_tools/webmaster/email_obfuscator/ All
you do is type the email address you want to 'obfuscate' into the
box at the bottom of the page (eg sue@syntax2000.co.uk), then the
name you want to appear (Sue Medley) and press the Generate
Obfuscated Email Link button. What you'll end up with is a bit of
HTML like this:

<a href="javascript:location='mailto:\u0073\u0075\u0065\u0040\u
0073\u0079 \u006e\u0074\u0061\u0078\u0032\u0030\u0030\u0030\u002e\
u0063\u006f\u002e\u0075\u006b';void 0">Sue Medley</a>

A small Link Tester window also pops up with the display name in
it. Clicking on it should, all being well, open a new email
addressed to the correct name.

Finally pasting this code into the appropriate part of your web
page's code will hide your email address from the spam-bots
without making your page look any different. Very useful!







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