Like many offices, the church office has a content filter installed to make sure that nobody looks at bad stuff on t’Intarweb. We use the excellent DansGuardian (the author of which is attending LUGRadio Live at which point I shall buy him a beer).

I would like to suggest 2 tips for making sure that your site doesn’t get picked up by filtering software:

1. Think before you name objects/pictures. Associated New Media, this means YOU! Renaming all of your title graphics to tit_pagename was not a clever idea…..
2. Try not to use lots of senstive words in a single link. For example MOPS (the Mothers Of PreSchoolers website) has an image on the front page which includes both the word ‘teen’ and the word ‘love’ in the URL for a picture.

Content filtering is becoming more and more popular, and you should particularly think properly when building your website if you are producing a site for children, or for people to access from their work….

Here endeth the lesson.

mrBen