email links

hi, im fairly new to dreamweaver.
i have just exported a website to dreamweaver mx from fireworks mx.
i am wanting to know how i make a button a email link? so that when i click on
a button it brings up the new message window!

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i am wanting to know how i make a button a email link? so that when i
click on
a button it brings up the new message window!

Select the image (or text) you want to use for the email link. In the
Property Inspector, next to Link, type: mailto:name (AT) address (DOT) com (replacing
that with the real email address, of course).


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There are two basic ways to process form data -

1. Use mailto:name (AT) domain (DOT) com as the action of the form
2. Use a server-side scripting method to a) harvest the form's data, b)
process it in some manner, e.g., enter it into a database, c) formulate and
send an email to one or more email recipients, and d) redirect the visitor
to some ending page

Method 1 is quite simple, and is also the least reliable. It depends both
on your visitor having an email client already installed on their computer -
this eliminates public computers - and on that email client responding to
the mailto call (Eudora on the Mac is a good example of one that does not).

Method 2 is the preferred method, since it eliminates the problems of method
1, but it means that you have to grapple with server-scripting somehow (ASP,
CF, PHP, perl, etc.).

So - use whichever works best.


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"P@tty Ayers" <payers (AT) carolinawebsolutions (DOT) com> wrote

i am wanting to know how i make a button a email link? so that when i
click on
a button it brings up the new message window!

Select the image (or text) you want to use for the email link. In the
Property Inspector, next to Link, type: mailto:name (AT) address (DOT) com
(replacing
that with the real email address, of course).


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There are two basic ways to process form data -

He wasn't asking about using a form, was he? :-)

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He was asking about an email link. I extrapolated that to the way it oughta
be done.

Did I breathe too much Off in the Virginia marshes or something?

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"P@tty Ayers" <payers (AT) carolinawebsolutions (DOT) com> wrote

There are two basic ways to process form data -

He wasn't asking about using a form, was he? :-)

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He was asking about an email link. I extrapolated that to the way it
oughta
be done.

Did I breathe too much Off in the Virginia marshes or something?

DEET poisoning? :-) You can extrapolate anytime you want, Murray - you've
earned it. =)


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Those skeeters were vicious. Particularly when I arose at 2-3AM to ...
inspect tree bark....

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"P@tty Ayers" <payers (AT) carolinawebsolutions (DOT) com> wrote

He was asking about an email link. I extrapolated that to the way it
oughta
be done.

Did I breathe too much Off in the Virginia marshes or something?

DEET poisoning? :-) You can extrapolate anytime you want, Murray -
you've
earned it. =)


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