How to actuate a visitor's email server to contact me?

[dougnez]

Hi... How do I place my "Blue" email address on contact page... When a visitor wishes to conatct me they just click on my address and "wah la" .. their email server kicks in so they can send me a message... Is this possible..? I've done it when visiting other websites... Thanks... Dug

[navaldesign]

Re: How to actuate a visitor's email server to contact me?

Place some text like "Contact me" or a "Mail me " image in your page, and link it: Link type must be mailto, and in the URL field, type in (after the mailto:) your email address.

[dougnez]

Re: How to actuate a visitor's email server to contact me?

Hi.. thanks... You've helped me on many issues here at BV so Thanks... BUT... I have "Contact Us" brought up in a text box ... How to link it??? Just can't figure it??? Thanks again... slow today that's me... Doug

[dougnez]

Re: How to actuate a visitor's email server to contact me?

Hey Naval.... That worked out just great... In fact I linked the mailto address in the "Contact Us" button... and sure as sunshine.. click that button and up comes the email write form... Thanks... You're the Best

[skyelinARTS]

Re: How to actuate a visitor's email server to contact me?

Just wanted to say THANK YOU! I am having an issue with e-mail "contact us" also... and am going to try this. :)

Does this encrypt your e-mail address as well?

Skye Lin
www.skyelinarts.com

[navaldesign]

Re: How to actuate a visitor's email server to contact me?

No, it does not. To encrypt your email address : http://www.dynamicdrive.com/emailriddler/index.htm

Please note that email encryption only works for bots, not for humans. A bot will not be able to see your email address from the page code. Byt, as soon as a human clicks on the link, Outlook Express will open and the email address will be visible.

[dougnez]

Re: How to actuate a visitor's email server to contact me?

Hey Naval... So I'm just previewing "offline" and the contact us button works great... so you're saying that out in the real world.. when loaded on the server I need to add this encryption text... Ok so ... where does it go??? How to do?... Tell me and I'll see if I can figure it all out... Thanks doug

[navaldesign]

Re: How to actuate a visitor's email server to contact me?

No, it is not really necessary to encrypt your email address. However, encrypting it might save you from spammers. Spam spiders crawl thousands of websites, looking for email addresses to build spam mailing lists. Encryptin, will save you some (if not all). Follow the above link to find a nice tool that allows email encryption.