Here's the new Comus Productions Showreel for 2008, as you can see we have been busy! To watch more videos, or for more information visit the Comus Website: www.comusproductions.co.uk

The Living Food Kitchen is "A small, specialist raw food business serving private customers, health food shops and deli’s in the London area with a range of gourmet raw vegan products."

The site is built in php and features include newsletter signup and a random array of images in the header. This is the first site to be powered by Admin 76 the new bespoke CMS from 76 Creative.

Check out the site: www.thelivingfoodkitchen.com

It is important to protect email addresses on websites from being harvested by spambots.

"Email spambots collect e-mail addresses from the Internet in order to build mailing lists for sending unsolicited e-mail, also known as spam. Such spambots are web crawlers that can gather e-mail addresses from Web sites, newsgroups, special-interest group (SIG) postings, and chat-room conversations. Because e-mail addresses have a distinctive format, spambots are easy to write. A number of legislators in the U.S. are reported to be devising laws that would outlaw the spambot." – Wikipedia

This is my method for automatically detecting email addresses and replacing them with a javascript that will disguise them from spambots. The script works in two stages one in javascript and the other in php.

First the javascript function that outputs the mailto link:

function sb_email(user,site){
document.write('<a href=\"mailto:' + user + '@' + site + '\">');
document.write(user + '@' + site + '<\/a>');
}

The function has 2 parameters "user" and "site", which are the two parts of the email address either side of the "@". This function can be called like so:

sb_email('joe','bloggs.com');

The second part is the php functions that recognise email addresses and replace them with the javascript function to disguise them:

//function to output the js
function create_js ($matches){
$parts = explode ('@', substr ($matches[0], 1));
if(substr($parts[1],-1)=='.'){$parts[1]=substr($parts[1],0,-1); $parts[2]='.';}
$str = $matches[1].'<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">';
$str .= 'sb_email("'.$parts[0].'", "'.$parts[1].'");';
$str .= '</script>'.$parts[2];
return $str;
}
$js_callback = "create_js ";
 
//function to recognise emails
function email_protect($text){
global $js_callback;
$replace = '/([> ])[A-Z0-9._-]+@[A-Z0-9][A-Z0-9.-]{0,61}[A-Z0-9]\.[A-Z.]{2,6}/i';
$output = preg_replace_callback($replace, $js_callback, $text);
return $output;
}

The email_protect php function can be called on any text string like so:

echo email_protect($text);

It will automatically replace any email addresses in the text with the javascript, therefore hiding them from spambots.

This flash website built for Montague Wood Floors features a sliding "floorboard" style image gallery with numbered navigation. The image galleries can be filtered by job. Site design by Becky Sinden.

Check it out: www.montaguewoodfloors.com

This website for media production company Toba Film is a Flash microsite with html as a backup for users without the flash plugin and for search engines. It features a scrolling thumnail bar from which you can select a video to watch, each thumbnail is a slideshow featuring images from the video. The videos are encoded as flv (Flash Video). The video playlist is fully dynamic so that new videos can be added easily.

Check it out: www.tobafilm.com