Daily Web Tools » Forms http://www.dailywebtools.com Every Day, Another Web Site, Tool or Tip to Help the Internet Entrepreneur Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:53:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The First Stop For Free Web Building Tutorials http://www.dailywebtools.com/2008/07/31/the-first-stop-for-free-web-building-tutorials/ http://www.dailywebtools.com/2008/07/31/the-first-stop-for-free-web-building-tutorials/#comments Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:57:22 +0000 Liz Jamieson http://www.dailywebtools.com/?p=319 I only add this site for completeness, as it is one you should already know about and be using. It is w3schools.

w3schools covers topics like HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, PHP, ASP and SQL, but you’ll find a lot more there.

This site is a great starting point for learning to build web sites from scratch. W3Schools had over 11 million unique visitors in January this year. That is staggering.

The web site is completely free, and the site owners expect you to help them out by linking to their site from your blog, pointing out any errors you find on the site and so on. Help to keep this valuable resource free. Use it and link to it.

]]> http://www.dailywebtools.com/2008/07/31/the-first-stop-for-free-web-building-tutorials/feed/ 0 Stop Spammers Hijacking Your Web Forms http://www.dailywebtools.com/2008/07/28/stop-spammers-hijacking-your-webforms/ http://www.dailywebtools.com/2008/07/28/stop-spammers-hijacking-your-webforms/#comments Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:08:28 +0000 Liz Jamieson http://www.dailywebtools.com/?p=240 Did you know that spammers can take control of the forms on your web site and use them to send huge amounts of spam?

Today I am linking to the article that helped me prevent spammers from hijacking my forms. In case you are not aware, it is possible for spammers to use the forms on your web site as a vehicle for them to send spam to their victims, using your email address and server resources.

And they can do that all via forms on your web site.

You have make sure your forms are adequetley protected if you want to prevent this abuse. And if you don’t, and a spammer does hijack your forms, you and your server will be the source of the spam, not the spammere and his server.

This is quite serious. It means you can be blamed and your domain can be blacklisted if you inadvertantly allow spammers to use the forms on your web site. Many form processing scripts have been altered to filter out this kind of abuse, but if you or your web designer wrote the forms yourselves, you may want to check this advice on form hijacking.

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