Thank-you Tess and Hamid for this useful tool!

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Crystal Coleman, The Northern Edge

Unfortunately, even if you code a contact form into your site (instead of visible email address) with a captcha image (the thing where you have to type in matching letters or do a math sum) you'll stlll get spam - if you've only gotten one or two these past few months you're really doing OK Just redo the encoding....

It's kind of unavoidable, sadly...

Another suggestion is to use a different email on your site than you do for any of your other business communications - and yet a third to sign up for newsletters, etc. That way your spam will tend to be central to the non-client useable email addresses.

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I redid the encoding but it turned my email address completely white, making it difficult to read on my page. So I put the original page back up. Got any ideas about how to make the white email appear in a dark blue color?

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Shari Sultana
Online Business Manager (marketing for retail ecommerce)

Huh?? That's bizarre...
Try this and let me know (substituting the numbers for your own color's hex code.) :

Code:

<font color="#330066">all of your code goes here</font>

For a list of hex codes check here.

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Originally Posted by Tess

Huh?? That's bizarre... Try this and let me know (substituting the numbers for your own color's hex code.) : Code: <font color="#330066">all of your code goes here</font> For a list of hex codes check here.

Hi Tess,
I am finally at this point in my website development that I can use this email encoder. I am also having the problem where I can't change the font color. Do you have any other suggestions?
Thank you.

Julie

Tess - I just went into my webpage to change the email address coding and it looks like Website Tonight changed Hamid's code BACK to the email address?!? Any suggestions?

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Lily Chambers, The Virtual Office Goddess, LLC
Author "How to Do Your Own Small Business Bookkeeping"

What?? That shouldn't be possible - do you mean their support people would have done that or??

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No, I mean it just automatically changed it back when I clicked OK that I was done making changes. I will pm you...

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Oh..hmmm, well - template sites are finicky sometimes, my best guess is it just doesn't understand the code and chucks it. I know it's not a great direction to have to pursue but you'll have to ask their customer support about it.

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Agnes sent me over to this post after reviewing my website for me and I am soooo glad! I know how those spiders and crawlers work but I didn't know there was a way to get around them. I wish I'd known about this before. Now I just hope I managed to get all of my mailto links changed!

Thanks for providing this!