Design the Web: Creating and Protecting Email Links
30mIntermediate2015-02-10
Authors
Chris Converse
Applies design and UX principles to technology
Course details
Need to share your email address on the web, but don't want your inbox filling up with spam? Learn to hide email addresses from spiders and bots, with these smart solutions from web developer Chris Converse. He'll show you CSS-only options and techniques for reversing and encoding text, as well as advanced JavaScript-based solutions. The exercise files for this course are free to all lynda.com members, so download them now and get started learning how to hide your email addresses from web crawlers.
Skills covered
Web Design BusinessHTMLWeb StandardsWeb DesignSmall Business and EntrepreneurshipLimited SeriesWeb DevelopmentOpen Source
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Preview the final project
- 02 - About the exercise files
1. Protecting Your Email Address on a Webpage
- 03 - Using CSS pseudo-classes to display content in a page
- 04 - Using unicode-bidi and direction properties to reverse text
- 05 - Encoding text with character entities
- 06 - Creating and running an inline JavaScript function
- 07 - Detecting and assembling links with JavaScript