Putting your email in an image is a hassle for the user. A better option is to wrap a link in javascript that "constructs" your email from an encoded string an

Putting your email in an image is a hassle for the user. A better option is to wrap a link in javascript that "constructs" your email from an encoded string and sets the link's href to the appropriate mailto on hover. This is user friendly but incredibly hard to harvest in an automated fashion.