Adding Email Links

If you want your site's visitors to be able to contact you, you'll need to add a link that allows people to send you email.

To add an email link:

1.	Click the spot on the page where you want to add an email link.
2.	On the Insert Bar, click on the Email Link button , and the Email Link dialog will appear ( Figure 7.18 ). Figure 7.18. The Email Link dialog lets you set both the link (the email address) and the text that will be displayed on the Web page.
3.	Fill in the text field with the text you want to display in the Web browser, and fill in the E-Mail field with the email address. Click OK when you're done.

Tips

• Dreamweaver doesn't do any kind of error checking to make sure that the email address is in a valid format, so be careful when you're entering it.

• Putting an email address on a Web site can lead to that address getting all kinds of garbage or spam. There are a variety of ways to protect your email address. The simplest is just to encode itput it into a format such that the browser can understand it, but a spider sent out by a spammer can't. To learn more about this, search on Google for "email" + "obfuscator."