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Are you fed up of junk mail in your inbox? Do you have to spend few minutes to hours every day to sort out important mails from the spam mail? Well, you might be surprised to know that these mails might just be sent by your next-door neighbor as according to a recent study, India is the top spammer in the world. This study was conducted by Trend Micro, a company that provides internet security through Anti Virus and Anti Malware programs. China comes in second at 3.39 per cent followed by the Republic of Korea at 2.57 per cent. Asia accounts for almost seventeen percent of the total spam.

Email Spamming

Though every e mail web site provides a lot of help in fighting spamming, any amount of filtration is inadequate for these disturbing elements. Spam basically refers to unwanted mails sent by unknown people in your inbox every day. This could be advertisement of some product or it might be some kind of promotional scheme. And this industry is thriving because, believe it or not, almost ten percent of people buy stuff that is being advertised through spam.

Spamming searches the internet for valid e mail addresses. Chat rooms, forums, blogs, web sites are thoroughly searched by the programmers to generate a list of valid e mail addresses. The spammers then send mails to these valid e mail addresses as well as invalid ones related to these valid e mail addresses. Your address might just be caught in this process and thus starts the irritating process of receiving spam mails.

Gary Thuerk was the man who had sent the first spam e mail in the year 1978 to six hundred addresses who were the users of Arpanet. Microsoft founder Bill Gates receives four million mails a year most of which are spam. So you see not even the most powerful men in the computer industry can get rid of this menance.

Do you want people to browse through your website instead of closing the site the moment they set their eyes on it?

You should remember that nowadays people don’t have either time or patience to read an epic before they can understand the crux of your story. So try to add as many images as possible, but be sure that the images depict your point of view effectively and artistically. This doesn’t mean that you have to eliminate every bit of text from your web page. Text and pictures should be so placed that they complement each other and send the message across instantly.

Try to keep the web page elegant by using similar related colors and font sizes. Use contrasting colors, as they will appeal to the reader’s vision and pop out of the page. However, do not use too many different colors as the effect of the variation decreases. Don’t try to mess up the page by making it overly colorful. Using one or two font sizes is enough to make it look good. Anything beyond that might make it look gaudy. Color scheme should be such that it appeals to the eyes and not distract the viewers. Don’t use very loud and jazzy colors as the main background colors. These colors might look good for a funky site, not for an informative or serious site.

Try to use related links and thumbnails as much as possible. It becomes very convenient to dig into the news or information given on the web page if it’s associated with links providing related information. This increases interest in your information as you have provided the full trail to trace all the related links and pages.

Give special attention to your headlines. Headlines should be punchy to catch the attention of any one visiting your site. Many a time’s people devote some extra time than they had intended just because they are mesmerized by a catchy headline.