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Entries for July, 2008

Protecting Contact Forms From Spam

I’ve had several clients complain about getting spam through their contact forms. Initially, I tried checking the referrers to make sure the comments were being submitted from a browser rather than just a bot, but that didn’t help enough. Luckily, many people have created libraries for Akismet, the anti-spam service that Wordpress uses. I setup [...]

Targeting properties to IE6 with Valid CSS

When I’m translating a design to markup I can usually get it to look the same in all the major browsers without too much trouble, but every once in awhile there’s a problem with IE6 that I can’t figure out, or just don’t have the time/energy to deal with the right way. In the [...]