Mr. and Mrs. Kraus Blog

I have been having a good time writing this website. I wrote the entire blogging system and I’m kind of proud of it. I am learning as I go because new issues keep coming up. This week the big issue was spammers posting comments to my articles.

My readers don’t want links to pictures of Paris Hilton or ads for Viagra. And I don’t want to have to monitor all the comments on my site, and delete spam comments everyday. So I have found a wonderful and simple solution that I thought I would share.

I went to this website. They have provided a free PHP script to include Captcha security images to web forms. These are those funky images where you have to type the letters or numbers you see into a field, to prove that you are a living, breathing, thinking human being, rather than a slimy, no good spam bot.

So if you are a web developer looking to add some security to a form, take a look at this script. I had it working with this site in less than 10 minutes, so major props to these guys for providing such a great script!

Written by Aaron
Posted: Thursday, April 26, 2007 at 3:35 PM

So, you think you are smarter than my spambots, do you? I’ll show you… Doh, stupid image code thingies.

Chad Kraus web development

I spent a long time last night working on this website and I came to the conclusion that the differences between Internet Explorer (IE) and Firefox drive me nuts. For those who just said, “Huh?”, those are the two leading web browsers that most people use.

For example, one difference that can be found with this website is that currently there is an ugly gray color surrounding my comment icon in IE but not in Firefox. By the way I am using the silk icons from this guy. Thanks dude. Also, the white space between the navigation tabs and the page content is different in the two web browsers even though the code is the same.

Anyway, life would be much happier if I didn’t care about one type of browser or the other, but I do. When my sites don’t look identical in both it bothers me. Guess that’s a good reason for someone to hire me to do his/her site– I care.

Anyway, I’m working away on the site today. I really do enjoy it, which is why I’d do it on a Saturday.

Comments from old site:

Written by Chad
Posted: Sunday, April 15, 2007 at 12:46 PM

On the contrary, there are quite a few successful blogs about such topics. Some of those sites actually make good money too and have a large base of readers. Sadly, this is not such a site. I can dream I guess…

Written by Lindsey (MOH)
Posted: Friday, April 13, 2007 at 10:46 PM

I’m sorry Chad, but blogs about the difference between computer stuff, just don’t work out. Mind-bottling, isn’t it?

Chad Kraus web development