Posts Tagged ‘development’

griddle.it

// April 2nd, 2011 // No Comments » // technology, website

Saw this post from Chris at css-tricks.com and through it was freak sweet!

griddle.it – Makes working with a grid system a lot easier!

HTML5 Forms

// March 21st, 2011 // No Comments » // Random, technology, website

A great article about what is/what isn’t supporting with HTML5 Forms.

Hopfully the list will be updated by Wufoo over time to keep the information current and accuracy.

Enjoy! http://wufoo.com/html5/

Beating Spam on Websites

// March 12th, 2011 // No Comments » // Random, technology, website

So I’ve been getting about 15 emails a day about some new user registration for my fraternity forum. We currently use phpBB and it works well. But no matter what Anti-Spam Image I used, ones built into phpBB, the bots still got around it somehow.

Well I hated getting all these users accounts in the forum for no reason. So I was looking around in the ACP the other day and found the anti-spam method of just questions and answers. On websites in the past, I have seen some do a simple math question. So I took this idea and ran with it. I remove the image and just add one question.

“What is 2 + 4?”

Simple as that. I have yet to receive anymore spam users and the real users haven’t messed up the answer yet either, haha.

This simple idea is great to use if you are getting a lot of spam. It doesn’t 100% but you could also use the ASCII chars to output numbers and plus sign to throw off the spambots even more.

What are you ways of dealing with spam?

mobile friendly

// May 21st, 2009 // No Comments » // technology, website

I am happy to say, my blog is now mobile friendly. When you visit my site on your mobile device, it will load a lot faster and just have the main items like text and links. I removed all the images and the navigation that is hard to use anyways on mobile phones. So you get all the latest posts right up front. Check the blog often on your mobile device because I will continue to improve that side of my site. Hope everyone is having a great day. It is almost the weekend!!