Defend Your Thank You Folders From URL Guessers

Defend Your Thank You Folders From URL Guessers

by: Robert Plank

If you sell downloadable products, you’re going to have a thank you page (a URL where the buyer is redirected after a sale). With just a couple lines of HTACCESS code you can make that folder airtight.

You shouldn’t be putting a buyer through a mandatory signup process to download the product. They already paid, just give them the file right away and offer a chance to optin for updates later. Otherwise youกll be getting lots of support emails from people asking where the product is they just paid for.

Itกs always smart to name your thank you page something with a number a name like postorder735.html or thankyou9987.html will do. You just want to make this impossible to guess.

When itกs possible I like to separate the sales page from the download, so I stash them in a folder called something like กdownloadก or กorder.ก Problem: If you have these separate folders, these URL guessers can see the contents of them.

The obvious solution is to put an index.html in the folder, which keeps its contents from being listed… but what if you have, say, 25 of these folders? Do you need 25 index.html files?

No, and thatกs where HTACCESS comes in. Open up a new text file in Notepad and put this text in exactly:

Options Indexes

Then save the file as: .htaccess (WITH that dot in front)

Upload it to the root of your web site. Now, if you try to view the contents of a folder thatกs missing an index.html file, your browser will show a ก403 Forbiddenก error.

Don’t worry, this won’t block out all files. It will simply keep a guesser from viewing a list of what files are in a given folder.

If you don’t want to see that ugly generic Forbidden page, you can supply your own by adding this line to that .htaccess file of yours:

ErrorDocument 403 /sorry.html

Now you can put your message into a HTML file (maybe it could be a link to the main page of your site), put it into a file named sorry.html and upload it. Now youกll have a friendly notice that says anything you want.

One last bonus tip for you. If your forbidden message is extremely short, you don’t even need to create a separate HTML document. If itกs possible for your message to fit all on one line you can remove that ErrorDocument line above from your .htaccess file and put in something like this:

ErrorDocument 403 กSorry…

Iกm aware that there is a starting quote and no ending quote. Thatกs just how you have to type it. If you put in a quote at the end there it would show up in your HTML document. I know it looks funny, but it works. Remember that กSorry…ก text is HTML so you could put in line breaks, links, bold tags, H1, H2 tags, and so on. Itกs all up to you.

About The Author

Robert Plank

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This article was posted on March 27

by Robert Plank

The Essence of Quotes in Brochure Printing

The Essence of Quotes in Brochure Printing

by: Maricon Williams

Brochure printing allows us to fabricate glossy fullcolor brochure to showcase our products or establish a company. It can be a key element to build your company’s image or identity, to promote an event, to publicize a new product, to update product spec’s and hundreds of other purposes. In a spirited and competitive business world, a fourcolor brochure helps distinguish your company from the rest.

Brochures are informational materials that are single sheet printed on one side or both sides with no fold, folded in half, thirds or a custom fold. When sales literature is sixteen pages or fewer, it is called a brochure, however if it is more than that it is called a catalog.

Brochure printing services offer a wide range of designs, colors, and folds for your brochure. The more you order, the lower your cost will be because bulk orders will lessen the printing cost for an online printing company. You can even get free print quotes online with an instant printing quote system.

Printing quotes are helpful means to evaluate prices between local print shops when you don’t have spare time to do so. Printing quotes are usually free and you can acquire them from the comfort of your own computers. They are just a mouseclick away. Usually, you just need to type the print service, quantity and other vital details and you will receive your print quote instantly.

All online printing companies uses instant quote system. By this quoting system, you can experiment with varying quantities and options. There are printing quotes that have builtin calculators online. In order to enable it, you must have JavaScript in your browser for the calculators to work.

The printing quote shows the price for the minimum run based on the format of your job. You are going to pay the price shown by it. It includes the basic services like the production of film and plates, the electronic processing of your file, the setup of your job on a fourcolor press and the trimming of your job to the final size.

You will most likely pay for a single flat rate for each additional piece in any quantity you choose, up to a certain number of pieces. If you need an upgrade, you can also pick that option on the instant price quote system to get the total price. Examples of common upgrades are gloss coating, folding, and rush service.

About The Author

Maricon Williams

I love reading. Give me a book and Iกll finish it in one sitting. Reading is the chance to be transported to a different world and so is writing. Iกm more enthusiastic about writing however, since you can relay your ideas to someone else. I can only imagine that feeling when I hear a complete stranger talking about my ideas which read on an article somewhere. To relay my message to as many people is the same as touching people with music. Only mineกs less harmonic. I try to make up for it with the color I bring with words. And most of the time, it’s more than enough.

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This article was posted on April 01

by Maricon Williams

On Copying and Stealing Designs

On Copying and Stealing Designs

by: Lala C. Ballatan

The notion on the great artist, Pablo Picasso’s quote, กBad artists copy. Good artists stealก is lost on many. And revolving around the graphic designer circles is the quote ขGood artists copy, great artists stealข known as Picasso’s quote, still. Anyway, it might just be safe to assume that Picasso have not quoted this words exactly but he did have an ขexpert’s assessment and statementข regarding copying and stealing art styles and techniques.

The artistic world was widely influenced by Picasso, being the first living artist to be featured in the Louvre. Many have their own opinion and interpretation as to what he really meant on the quote. With the onset of digital technology and digital art, it is understandable that the modern Web graphic design also has an interpretation for it.

In an article by Cameron Moll, the Creative Director for IDI at http://www.sitepoint.com/article/copygreatdesignerssteal he had endeavored to uncover a possible explanation in three levels of design. These three levels involves some aspect of copying or stealing, shows increasing design maturity, adapts Picasso’s quote to modern graphic design. The interpretation by Moll was segmented in such a way that do not imply that they are the only levels of design. it is but a guide to assist the improvement of designers’ design and lead to their maturity with regards to copying and stealing designs.

The first level explains a wellimparted principle of starting out by copying other wellcreated designs. Web designing could relate this principle from the advice of Web copywriting guru, Gerry McGovern for writers: having a model for the kind of article that they need to do, dissect and analyze them and copy.

Copying, not creating have surprising positive effect, too, that of maintaining conventionality. There’s a familiar and intuitive effect for the users when most sites have essentially the same layout and information architecture by most sites. A Web designing career involve time constraints and budget limitations so much so that copying is almost mandatory.

The second level explains that the best resources where designers can steal are from themselves. They can tap into loads of their past designs that were never used or completed, or from their designs that have already been successful in order to reinvent a new design. This kind of stealing is quite helpful in molding their own distinctive design style to use as a selling point for clients.

The third level involves stealing from discreet sources. Albert Einstein is noted for quoting, ขThe secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.ข For designers the easiest way to do this is to use sources already hidden. Even great artists can’t be accused of stealing if their rare jewels of inspiration are from lost, bypassed, forgotten ideas which they have successfully incorporated with their own distinctive style. To graphic designers, they have to really research and rummage for the necessary unused and forgotten ideas applicable for their design.

One must be careful in copying from wellknown sources, though. It is best to copy the inspiration and not the exact output. To fully summarize, all graphid designers out there, there’s no problem in copying, even Picasso, in one of his quotes told about the necessity of copying. However, it is best to be careful in what you copy and how you copy it. 30

About The Author

Lala C. Ballatan is a 26 yearold Communication Arts graduate, with a major in Journalism. Right after graduating last 1999, she worked for one year as a clerk then became a Research, Publication and Documentation Program Director at a nongovernment organization, which focuses on the rights, interests and welfare of workers for about four years.

Book reading has always been her greatest passion mysteries, horrors, psychothrillers, historical documentaries and classics. She got hooked into it way back when she was but a shy kid.

Her writing prowess began as early as she was 10 years old in girlish diaries. With writing, she felt freedom – to express her viewpoints and assert it, to bring out all concerns imagined and observed, to bear witness.

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This article was posted on March 23

by Lala C. Ballatan