ALA 248: Obscure meanings and addresses
In Issue No. 248 of A List Apart, for people who make websites:
- Graceful E-Mail Obfuscation
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by Roel Van Gils
Hide e-mail addresses from spam bots while revealing them to readers as real, clickable links. This transparent and fully automated solution guarantees that all addresses on your site will be safe—even the ones that show up in blog comments!
- Greatest Copy Shot Ever Written
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by Nick Padmore
“Got Milk?”, “Don’t leave home without it”, “Good to the last drop.” You know these taglines and the products associated with them. So what makes a great copy shot? Is there a formula? And can understanding advertising help us write better web copy?
Tags: design, webdesign, alistapart, copywriting, email, e-mail, obfuscation, headlines, taglines, themelines, advertising
Filed under: A List Apart, Design, development, writing
Looked through the articles. The first appeals to the ability of email harvesters to read through the javascript-encoded output. Rather good solution at this time, imho, although the classic method of drawing an image still works too. The javascript method may be downgraded in future, because e-mail harvesters may learn to execute those javascripts, just like the searchers did.
The second article is really worth reading
Thanks