How to reduce your website spam with a Contact Form vs Posted Email Address

Posting your email address online so spiders can crawl it, vs using a secure contact form

Why Posting Your Email Address Attracts Spam

Spiders are not just the lovable daddy long legs like on "Honey I shrunk the Kids", or the creepy crawlers that give you the puffed up eye lid morning present.  On the internet, they are used to "scrape" emails off of websites.  So if you post your email addresses on your website you are prone to being scraped by one of these virtual creepy crawlers and getting on an unwanted mass emailing list.

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Where to get photos/images for your website?

You want your website to look pretty and attractive, and convey your company's brand, be the pretty book with the pretty content.  Hmm... good advice for dating too, huh?!  But I digress...  So, where to get these photos and images for your website?  There are 2 different ways to go, and you might go with both to suit your full needs. 1) If you are selling items, you will want the photos of your items displayed on your online store,... Continue reading
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Upgrade UWB 3.1 – Forms & Surveys builder, Polls app, Top/Footer non-scrolling bars, Responsive & Flowing Design Updates, Classifieds app

We have a big upgrade release coming soon, Ultimate Web Builder 3.1!  Features added include: 1) Forms & Surveys Builder - Build as many custom forms and surveys as you want.  Unlike 3rd party form builder applications you don't have to follow strict limits on how many forms and surveys you can create or how many submissions you can get. No paying more for getting more than a handful of responses...it's now a built-in feature to Ultimate Web Builder!  And... Continue reading
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WWW or no WWW – That is the question

www or no www

We are talking about whether your website is "www.your-website.com" or just "your-website.com" .  You want your website to be accessible both ways of course, whether the user types in the "www" or not (most people won't take the extra time to type what's not necessary right?).  You would lose traffic if you didn't make your website accessible both ways.  But you actually want your website to recognize one version as "the one", and redirect the other to it.

Why?  SEO

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Happy summertime working from the beach!

It's summertime, it's hot.  Even if you have air conditioning, sometimes you just don't want to work in the office, especially if you don't have any office meetings planned.  You don't need the four walls or desk to work.  You just need your laptop, or even tablet, and yes, or even your smartphone.  You want fresh air...you need fresh air...you can work from the beach, or anywhere you want.  No need to shorten your vacations  if you have an online... Continue reading
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How to create a unique custom social networking website using software

It is actually a myth that if you want a unique and custom social networking website, you can't create your website with a website builder software.  The truth is that you cannot do it with ALL website builders, or just any website builder on the market.  The reason is simple - most website builders don't give you the flexiblity you need.  For example, with the GoDaddy Website Tonight website builder, Yahoo SiteBuilder, Wix, Weebly, and VistaPrint SiteBuilder [compare website

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When do you need a secured server, i.e. SSL certificate for your website?

UPDATE: Get more info/updated recommendations on SSL in the newer blog post, Should you get SSL for your website? Top 5 Reasons to go HTTPS, and Top Drawbacks You don't need to know that SSL for websites stands for Secure Sockets Layer.  But you do need to know what they are used for, to then figure out if your website needs it! SSL is the standard security technology for encrypting data passed between the web server and browser, and ensuring... Continue reading
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How to make money on your website

There are several ways to monetize your website, to not only earn the money for your web hosting costs, but to make a profit. 1) An obvious way is to sell something.  It can be a product or a service, a subscription to a newsletter, or membership to your webpages for access to information and media, for example.  If someone wants it, you can sell it. 2) You DON'T have to sell anything on your website to make money on... Continue reading
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What “Unlimited” Really Means in Web Hosting

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Updated 2026: This article has been expanded to better explain how “unlimited” web hosting plans work and how resource limits are actually enforced.

When shopping for web hosting, you will often see plans advertised with “unlimited bandwidth,” “unlimited storage,” or “unlimited hosting.” At first glance, this sounds like an incredible offer: unlimited resources for a small monthly fee.

However, in reality, “unlimited” hosting is not literal. Every server and network connection has physical limits.

As Humpty Dumpty says in Through

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Can’t access your website? Prompted with a “Download” link on your own website?

You can't access your website -  instead of your website being displayed you are prompted with a "Download" bar/link on your own website.   If you have just changed web hosts or your website has recently gotten hacked/cleaned up this could be because of your .htaccess file.  If the cause is your website being hacked, you should reupload a backup copy of your .htaccess file, or if you don't have a backup, open it and check it for bad coding.  If... Continue reading
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