Basic Web Page Writing Step 12 - Address and E-Mail Links

Basic Guide For Writing Web Pages -- Introduction / Table Of Contents / Previous Page / Next Page

Basic Web Page Writing Step 12
Address and E-Mail Links

In step 11 you used in-line graphics and added graphic images to your web page. Your page should be looking real nice at this point and it's time to get some feedback from the viewers of your page.

This step will show you how to use the an ADDRESS Tag and allow people viewing your page to send you E-MAIL directly from your web page.

The tags for the ADDRESS command are <ADDRESS> and </ADDRESS>. The ADDRESS option is useful in that it can be used anyplace in the body of the page, but typically it is used at the bottom, just before the </body> end tag. It is used to specify an address and other information that is important to your page. The ADDRESS tag typically is shown in ITALIC and may also be indented by you browser. It also implies that it starts and ends with a paragraph tag.

What To Include In An Address Tags

Anything can be included in the Address Tags, but most commonly the following are placed there.

The Title of the Page
The Date it was created or updated
Your name and your e-mail address
Links to other pages
Page Counters
Guest Books

A typical Address Section

<ADDRESS>
<b>Title of Page</b><BR>
Created May 1, 1996<BR>
Web Page Created by "Your Name Here"<BR>
Your e-mail address here<BR>
<P>
</ADDRESS>

This would be displayed as:

Title of Page
Created May 1, 1996
Web Page Created by "Your Name Here"
Your e-mail address here

Notice the use of the break tag to separate lines and the bold option to highlight the Title of Page. It also is a good idea to end with a Paragraph tag to be sure the last line of the page is visible.

Creating a Hyperlink E-Mail Address

To make it possible for someone to send you e-mail from your page, you need to create a hyperlink with the MAILTO: option. In the next few steps you will see more about hyperlinks, so for now just follow the example given.

The format for a HYPERLINK is <A HREF="MAILTO:XXXXXXX">YY YYY</A>

The XXXXX in the example above is e-mail address to send to and the YYYYY is the information you want the person viewing your page to see it.

In the following example my address is used:

<A HREF="MAILTO:lcurreri@juno.com">PLEASE SEND ME E-MAIL</A>

This would appear as:

PLEASE SEND ME E-MAIL

Now when someone clicked on the link, their browser would enter the e-mail mode.

NOTE: SOME BROWSERS DO NOT HAVE E-MAIL BUILT IN. THEREFORE IT IS BETTER TO USE SOMETHING LIKE THE FOLLOWING FOR THOSE USES. THIS METHOD NOT ONLY PROVIDES THE LINK, BUT ALSO SHOW THEM THE ADDRESS IF THEIR BROWSER DOES NOT HAVE THE MAIL FEATURE.

PLEASE SEND ME E-MAIL<A HREF="MAILTO:lcurreri@juno.com"> lcurreri@juno.com</A>

This would appear as:

PLEASE SEND ME E-MAIL l_curreri@yahoo.com

This should be included in the Address tags as shown above. Another example of this is shown in the footer of this page.

Try using the address and e-mail links on your own page. You can use any text you want to appear with the link.

In step 13 you will learn more about hyperlinks and see how to Link pages you create all together.

STEP 13 -- Linking to A Local File

Basic Guide For Writing Web Pages -- Introduction / Table Of Contents / Previous Page / Next Page

created by Larry Curreri,

last modified: January 14, 2002

This page hosted by Get your own Free Home Page

Basic Guide For Writing Web Pages -- Introduction / Table Of Contents / Previous Page / Next Page