Creating a Web site

What information to put on a Web site (cont'd)

It is probably best to include only e-mail addresses (even then keeping in mind the possibility that they may be ‘harvested’ by e-mail spammers). You can then give out addresses and telephone numbers selectively when people contact you by e-mail.

There are ways to attempt to disguise e-mail addresses:

• Fighting spam through better web design (U. Toronto)
• Hiding your email address from spammers (FX)
• show e-mail address as an image (many Web sites offer free generation of such images, but they won't be readable in text-only browsers or by blind people)
• use a dummy address from a forwarding service like MailNull (I haven't used this service myself, and offer no guarantee of its legitimacy)
• use form-based message sending (e.g., securemail.php) if your Web server supports it

Slide show generated from server.html by Weasel 2006 Mar 14