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Kim Adams, President, Tiger Studios, Inc.

Today I thought I would talk about email links — how to code them and the controls you can add. Most of you are used to email links on a web site. When you click on an email address you are sent to an email application where you can send a message to that email address. In HTML this is called a mailto. The following is what this code would look like: <a href="mailto:person1@somewhere.com"> person1@somewhere.com</a>. The mailto is very much like a standard web site link using the <a href=""></a> tags.

Now that you have the basics, how about adding some more information. What if you want 2 people to receive the same email message from the web site? You start with the standard mailto code and add: "?cc= person2@somewhere.com" if you want Person2 to be copied on the message. You can also do a BCC, Blind Carbon Copy, "?bcc= person3@somewhere.com" if you want a copy sent but do not want the email address shown. The final code for both would look like this: <a href="mailto:someone@somewhere.com?cc=person2@somewhere.com">person2@somewhere.com</a> or: <a href="mailto:someone@somewhere.com?bcc= person3@somewhere.com">person3@somewhere.com</a>.

How about adding a pre-populated subject line in the email message? Add: "?subject=Contact from Our Web Site" to the mailto tag. The final code would look like this: <a href="mailto: person1@somewhere.com?subject=Contact from Our Web Site">person1@somewhere.com</a>.

I hope that this will open up some options for you on your web site.

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