Building a new website-any tips?

[Thomas W. Bethe]

Originally Posted by Tonycamp

Do NOT! offer your address until you get an "email commitment" by the visitor! Unless of course, you want to list yourself in the "Burglar Yellow Pages"

Also if you put your email address in you web page use the old yourstudioA
TBongo.net instead of yourstudio@bongo.net otherwise you will get a whole lot of spam emails, been there done that. There are programs that look for email addresses in websites and then spam them.

[insomaniac]

Originally Posted by Thomas W. Bethe

Also if you put your email address in you web page use the old yourstudioA
TBongo.net instead of yourstudio@bongo.net otherwise you will get a whole lot of spam emails, been there done that. There are programs that look for email addresses in websites and then spam them.

Some of those programs will still read "yourname (AT) website (DOT) com" and get an email address. We can't win...

[Michael E]

Just use the Gmail with your domain, for free. Excellent spam filter.
Google Apps for Business

And no more stupid charades for customers.

[SDDP]

Not to thread jack as this will help the op as well.

What video hosting do you guys suggest to have on the demo pages?
The problem with youtube being embedded is that it has advertisements.


Also to the OP, might want to get a good reputable website designer and make sure you get the package with CMS website (Content Management System) where you can go in through an admin page to change anything anytime.

[musicl]

Wordpress. It's free and if you host it yourself customisable till the cows come home. With some plugins you can see refers, what country, pages they look at, keywords etc

Host your music with soundcould and embed it on your site. Done

[Michael E]

Originally Posted by SDDP

Not to thread jack as this will help the op as well.
What video hosting do you guys suggest to have on the demo pages?
The problem with youtube being embedded is that it has advertisements.

Vimeo, Your Videos Belong Here ofc

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By the way, why don't you guys just stick with a custom designed Facebook page?
Easy to maintain, social buzz, a lot of features.

[zmod]

+1 for using WordPress as a content management system hosted on your server. I'm rebuilding our studio's website using it and it was fairly easy to learn.

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[Andrew Mottl]

Re the email problem - I've included my contact details as a jpg on my site. The page itself ist called contact, so if you google that you find it, just the contact details are not listed in text form for bots to harvest. Of course, I'm sure there are a few that can scan images for info... still... might worth a try.

[ootini]

One way around spam bots grabbing your email address is to have it on the site but not as text or html, but as an image of the text. A .jpeg file for example.

[ootini]

Originally Posted by Andrew Mottl

Re the email problem - I've included my contact details as a jpg on my site. The page itself ist called contact, so if you google that you find it, just the contact details are not listed in text form for bots to harvest. Of course, I'm sure there are a few that can scan images for info... still... might worth a try.

Sorry didn't see this, you beat me to it.

[Facepalm]

Originally Posted by ootini

One way around spam bots grabbing your email address is to have it on the site but not as text or html, but as an image of the text. A .jpeg file for example.

To provide maximum annoyance to your visitors by forcing them to type your address manually. Brilliant.

[ootini]

The best bet is to create a contact form instead.

[ErikG]

You can have a java script setup so it all looks and works normally but its not displayed as a normal text in the html page and is only decided by the java engine in the readers browser.

[ThisIsSka]

Originally Posted by ootini

The best bet is to create a contact form instead.

I'd steer clear of this, many a time I've lost an email or whatever composing in a 'contact form' for it either to break or just vanish.

[tom_lowe]

Originally Posted by Facepalm

To provide maximum annoyance to your visitors by forcing them to type your address manually. Brilliant.

This is a very 2000s method. There are several scripts to encode an e-mail, so it will read like normal, but a hyperlink like normal, but be scrambled to any bots. if you use WP (Wordpress) several plug-ins are available to do this. No text should EVER be an image unless you want Google etc. to struggle indexing your site.

If you do use Wordpress, make sure it's secure - http://speckyboy.com/2012/07/22/free...own-wordpress/