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Spam Analyse - tool for analysing newsletters for spam words
Duration: 13 August 2006 - Present
Link: http://www.SpamAnalyse.com
History on how it all began
Although my main expertise and skill are as a web developer, I have gained over 2 years experience as a email-marketing coordinator and newsletter producer for 'Cheapflights.co.uk'. I have learnt how Email marketing can be so valuable in comparison to snail mail, fax's or any other form of communication. For organisations selling products it provides a cost effective, interactive, efficient method to communicate their services and products to thousands or millions of users in less than a day. The more users in a mailing the more valuable the newsletter becomes with potential sponsors lining up to pay thousands to have their names printed.
However, many organisations send out their mailings but do not consider how a newsletter will differ from a website. Without carefully considering the consequences, newsletters may appear unreadable and incompatible with many browsers and ISPs. The biggest problems are spam filters. Over 20% of mailings can be lost and classed as junk mail and sent straight to bulk folders or even rejected by most domains and browsers such as Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo and Outlook express.
Objective of SpamAnalyse.com
My interest in programming has led me to work on the SpamAnalyse project. I wanted to create a tool that can store all my findings and knowledge in a central database and then do all the hard work by analysing to ensure my e-zines are in good shape and will not cause problems. It is created to save allot of time and adapted to easily fit in new rules and extensions. I have opened this project to work as a free service to everyone as I feel it can be immensely useful and would like new users to encourage to feedback their ideas and experiences by and sign up to a future blogg which I am currently integrating too.
Features of SpamAnalyse.com
- Rule based system - This is the first time I have developed a application in such a structure. A rule based application stores all the settings in the database and this means I can freely modify settings and rules for the spam analysis without touching any messy code again. This also brings the potential for future non-technical users to amend rules by a easy online interface.
- Fully object orientated - SpamAnalyse is fully object orientated and the benefits for me as a developer are huge. Coding is a quarter of what it would usually be and most of all it is shared. This means any changes, whether small or big can be added without disrupting the application or causing conflicts within the code.
- Integrated content management system (CMS) - As I would like to make updates and changes when I find learn and find new discoveries. A CMS is the most flexible process to meet my schedules and demands. The particular CMS, I have used is fully database driven so there is no need for me to use any FTP or control panels. I now have the ability to make changes from any location with a internet connection and PC. The CMS also has a integrated blogg which i hope to install with SpamAnalyse.com
- Fully w3c XHTML 1.0 Strict - All my work contains very clean and compatible with all devices from PCs, mobiles and palmtops. It is also accessible to all types of users.
