Creating E-Mail Links And Special Effects
Creating Email Links
Mailto hyperlinks are links that the user can click on to send an email message to the website owner.
It is important to include a mailto hyperlink on webpages to provide a contact for feedback.
The html code for creating e-mail links is as follows:
<a href="mailto:username@domain.com">
It is not a good idea however to code email like this on a webpage because spammers have special software called mailbots
that will scan through a multitude of websites for email addresses to send spam mail. It is also a good idea to sign up for a free
web based email account for a contact email for websites.
There is a free software program available called a NATATA Anti-Spam Encoder. This is a useful program for website builders
that will scan for email addresses on webpages and encode them in such a format that the mailbots can not read but browsers can.
More Tags For HTML Special Effects
Here are some special effects html tags that are not commonly used:
Preformated Tag Set <pre></pre>:
In some cases things will be pasted on a webpage that needs to stay in the same format from which it is copied.
These types of things would be placed in between this tag set.
<big>This Tag set will make text bigger</big>
<small>This Tag Set will make text smaller</small>
<strike>This tag set will strike out text</strike>
<sub>makes the text slightly lower</sub> such as H20
<sup>makes the text slightly higher</sup> such as a footnote4
