Welcome

This website contains a few tools and freebies that web designers might find useful. Feel free to use them as you wish. But please don't copy any of the graphical content from these pages.

Anti-spam tools

If you want people to contact you through your web pages, then you need to use a mailto: link or a feedback form. Although feedback forms tend to me more reliable when implemented correctly, many people (myself included) prefer to use mailto: links. Perhaps the best solution is to offer both.

Unfortunately, the web is routinely scoured by spammers looking for email addresses to add to their junk mail lists. Ordinary mailto: links are an easy target, so it is important to disguise your email links so that the spammers can't find them.

My Email Address Scrambler uses Javascript to generate links that defeat all known email address harvesting applications. It is also coded to ensure that visitors without Javascript are still able to read your email address.

This site also contains an HTML Obfuscator that makes it harder for spammers to locate your contact details.

PHP reference

Many web hosting packages now include the ability to run PHP scripts. Documentation for the PHP language is freely available on the PHP website, but the downloadable versions are unsuitable for use on Macintosh systems. One version uses thousands of files with filenames longer than the maximum 31 characters (resulting in broken links), and another consists of the entire documentation in a single file which is slow to load and navigate.

For the benefit of Mac users, I have generated Mac-friendly PHP documentation that is much easier to use on Mac systems.