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When choosing the name for your domain, always remember that:

  • You can't use stressed vowels (such as à, é, ò, etc.)
  • You can't use symbols (such as ' + . , | ! " £ $ % & / ( ) = ? ^ * ç ° § ; : _ > ] [ @ )
  • The name's length must range between 3 and 63 characters (excluding the extension)
  • The name can neither start nor end with the character "-", although the character "-" is allowed inside the name. 

So, to name your domain you can use any letter, numbers between 0 and 9, and the symbol "-". Length may vary, from 3 to 63 types. For domain names registered under the geographical structure, the limit is between 1 and 63 types.

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Email Obfuscation Tool

Posted on May 2, 2008 08:24 by Team

An often endless battle for us is the battle against SPAM. We spend a great deal of effort and resources fighting spammers and educating our users on various tools and techniques used in the war. One common method for spammers to add new email addresses is the use of special software known as mail "harvesting bots" or "harvesters", which spider web pages to obtain e-mail addresses. If your web site contains an email address that is readable by a machine in the form of <username> at <domain> then your mail address is easily picked up by email harvest software. This includes email addreses that may be embedded in hidden fields in your forms.

One such method of fixing this problem is to obfuscate your email address and "mailto:" tag with encoded HTML characters. For example, this address, support@ihwy.com, works like you would expect a normal email address to work but is actually obfuscated and hidden SPAM Harvesters.

You can access this tool by going to: http://www.ihwy.com/Tools/Email-Obfuscation-Tool.aspx

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Expression Engine

Posted on April 1, 2008 05:12 by Team

Expession Engine

Tinkering with Expression Engine for a few moments, it instantly received a "wow." Clever, adaptable, accommodating, Expression Engine has qualities of a good friend, a good program, while being a fantastic site-structuring application. It has a general versatility within the administrative interface as well as designing capabilities. Written, coded, and constructed with a type of genius resourcefulness, it easily stands with other frontrunners of web-based site design and construction.

Expression Engine does have peers. Like any web-based site builder, the limitations are not absent. The mixture of dynamics are often hindered by the nature of web-based platforms; so, what attracts a designer to one web-application over another is its functionality. Two noticeable characteristics of this application are simplicity and diversity.

One can easily paste a line of code within the builder interface, click on or off widgets, and scoot over to admin options without having to get a search and rescue team to locate necessary links. Often tenuous is the task of giving permissions or enabling widgets but in the interface of ExpressionEngine is the exciting and rare ability to know where to find the things you need.

What one may produce using Expression Engine are operational, smooth, content complimentary sites, which visitors, and their browsers, navigate with facility and ease. A site's flare and zest, style and pizzazz are in the fingertips of who ever brandishes this mighty application.

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