digital electronic mail sent over the internet.
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Using mailto: links for email addresses…what is the practice these days?
When giving out your email address on a site, do people still use the mailto:email@example.com syntax for the link?
Does this work with people using web mail clients? I use gmail and whenever I click ...
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email field or username for logging in an application?
What is the best solution for an app : Email or username field?
I like email because:
it's unique
user will easily remember
it's personal (which can be a disadvantage sometimes; Multiple users on ...
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Is it good practice to force users to give us their email address before showing them our site?
Our company has a website that sells wine. Our idea is that we will ask user to sign up using their email address before they can see any products.
The reasoning behind this is that if a user comes ...
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activation email message optimization
I've got a site (e.g FooBar) and 1 out of 2 users registering never activate their account (via clicking on an email link) so I'm trying to improve this.
The flow is pretty standard:
user lands on ...
