SanfordWhiteman

If your form’s Thank You page is on a different private domain — not just another subdomain of your main domain — and you want to pass over form values, they need to be appended to the query string.[1]For example, if you’re forwarding people to a partner site, they probably have a keen interest in t...

In this recent post I described how you can save database space, optimize bandwidth, and increase readability by storing URLs in their decoded form:A decoded URL is equivalent to an IRI (Internalized Resource Identifier). That’s the official standard for “A string that’s like a URI, except it allows...

We waste a lot of space and bandwidth treating URL-like strings* as if they’re too precious to decode. I’m thinking it’s time for a new approach! URLs are ASCII-onlyRemember (hoping you do!) that URLs can only contain visible ASCII characters — capital A-Z, lowercase a-z, numeric 0-9 and a handful o...

Grab Images from Web (under Email Editor » Email Actions and the equivalent spot in LP Editor) is a cool tool, but it’s subject to common web security restrictions.So a page that looks fine in its own browser tab — like your own corporate site, the principal place you’d (legally) grab images from — ...

Known Visitor HTML (“If Known Visitor, Show Custom HTML” in Form Editor » Form Settings » Settings) shows a slimmed-down form if the current pageview, or existing Munchkin session, is associated with a person in your db.Typically you show just a Download button, together with a brief reminder of who...

Don’t worry, it’s not your fault! The web was simply designed with an undue amount of trust in, well, people.As the web has evolved, some data points that used to be available across sites have been determined to be security and/or privacy risks, and they’ve been made harder to get to, if not imposs...

A question recently cropped up about adding the lang tag to the element in a Marketo email — as the W3C has long recommended — but making the language a variable instead of a static value set in the template.If you’re going to include lang, this flexibility makes sense, for sure. (Not convinced rec...