Have you heard? Spammers really do go searching the web for e-mail addresses to send spam to.

Before you go out and take off all the e-mail addresses from your website, there is an alternate way. By using some simple JavaScript (all you really need to know about that is it's a web programming language) you can hide the emails from the "spiders" that spamers use to scan the web.

To do this, go into your web design program and find where the e-mail address is or should go. Switch to view as HTML (this will have all the "techy" code, not the design view). In FrontPage at least you can highlight the section or word you want to go to, switch to HTML, and then the same section/word will be highlighted. This is helpful if you don't know HTML and have a hard time finding your place.

Where you want the e-mail address to appear, simply copy and paste the following code into the HTML:







Note that the "beforetheat" and "domain.com" portions will need to be changed to the portion of the email that is before the @ and the part after. Keep the quotes in. If you wish to change the text that will show up (for example, this coding will show the word "E-mail" as a hyperlink, the e-mail address beforetheat@domain.com will be the link) then simply change the part between the quotes.

Also note that you cannot copy and past this text. You will have to re-type it.