At HelpEncourage.Me, one of the features is the ability to invite your friends and have them send you helpful advice and encouragement. This means that sometimes I need to send email on your behalf – usually in the form of invitations to join the website or to become a specific user’s friend. In previous posts, […]
Author: Brian
Avoiding the SPAM Folder – DKIM
In my last post, I mentioned that after the public launch of HelpEncourage.Me, many of our emails were being sent to the SPAM folder by the big three (Google, Yahoo, and Hotmail). The first step I took to resolve this issue was adding an SPF record to authorize mail servers to send email on behalf […]
Avoiding the SPAM folder – SPF Records
At HelpEncourage.Me, I use email for a variety of purposes: invitations, reminders, resetting passwords, etc. However, I noticed that the emails would often get moved into the SPAM folder by various email providers. Obviously, that is not a good thing, especially since these are transactional emails that are triggered by a direct request from users. […]
Generating a CSS Sprite Image File
One of the common suggestions for improving the speed of your website is to combine all your images into a single image file, or sprite file, and use CSS to display only the specific sprite you want to display. As I start to incorporate a number of icons and other small images into my websites, […]
Dynamic Sitemaps in ASP.NET MVC3 (Part 2)
If you aren’t familiar with the schema for a sitemap yet, take a moment to review the basic tags and their definitions. After you have refreshed your memory, it should be clear that we can use a simple class to represent possible URLs in a sitemap: /// <summary> /// Holds a single url for the […]