Whenever you want to invite your visitors to email you, an email link is the perfect solution. When someone clicks an email link, her email program launches automatically, and a new message opens with your email address already in the To field. She can then just type her message and send it off.
An email link looks like this: mailto:nessie@nationalexasperator.com. The first part, mailto :, indicates the type of link, while the second part (nessie@nationalexaspera-tor.com) specifies the email address.
You can create an email link much the way you'd create any other Dreamweaver link: by selecting some text or an image and typing the mailto address, as shown above, into the Link field in the Property inspector. To simplify this process, Dreamweaver has a quick method of inserting an email link:
On the Common tab of the Insert bar, click the Email link icon, which looks like an envelope (see Figure 4-6) .
Alternatively, choose Insert Email link. In either case, if youve already typed the text ( Email me !) on your Web page, select it first. The Email Link dialog box opens (see Figure 4-7).
In the Text field, type the text that you want to appear on the Web page .
You've just indicated the link's purpose, like Email the Webmaster . (If you select text in the document first, it automatically appears in the Text field.)
Type an email address into the E-Mail field .
This is the address that appears in your visitors' email program when they click the link. (You don't have to type mailto :Dreamweaver adds it automatically.)
Click OK .
Dreamweaver adds the text to the page, complete with a mailto link.