Clickable Gmail link
In the sidebar I have 
...a clickable email link to my gmail account. I found this at E-Mail Icon Generator. The instructions they gave were rather vague. (At least vague to me. I need indepth explanations.)
I finally figured out how to make the image clickable. Add this code to where ever you want the link substituting your own information in the red areas:
<div class="component">
<a href="mailto:your email address here"><img border="0" src="the url they supplied" border="0"></a>
<div class="componentContent">
<p align="center">
<small><a href="http://services.nexodyne.com/email/">Get your GMail button here</a></small>
</p>
</div>
</div>
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Classic Blogger,
Design,
Graphics
16 Comments:
Is it safe to put email hyperlinks. I know plain text email addresses on webpages are collected by spam bots. But I don't have any idea about hyperlinks.
@shrish, I haven't had any problems with my Gmail link. So, I'm assuming it is safe.
Thanks so much for this. I was also confused with the instructions in said site. Annie, you do make things work! I now have it installed in my blog. Thanks again :-)
Bill
@bill bilig, Glad it worked for you. I was confused by the site instructios also...that is why I tried to simplify it and did the post!
Thanks again - so simple, once you show how to do it. This is by far the best site I have seen for beta blogger add-ons,especially for people like me who just want to copy and paste stiff and have it just work.
Just to fro it out there. All spambots see is the html. So that's just as unsafe as putting your email out plainly.
Also, you can add to the mailto link to add an auto subject/body eg.
"mailto:monkey@aliraheem.com?subject=cool&body=dont taze me bro"
the design this blog is perfect. how to create the sidebar menu like this blog (home - about - rss) ??
@bisnis online, A Cool CSS Navigation Menu
So in order for this to work, the user has to have an email client installed on the PC that they are using, am I right? I mean, if someone uses web based email, this really won't do anything for them will it?
Thanks.
@spanish...I'm not quite sure what you mean. I only have a web based email...nothing installed on my computer.
Okay, I think I get it. What this will do is open up the user's gmail account, in indeed that user has a gmail account?
@spanish, well, when I click on the link (in my middle column towards the bottom where it says 'drop me a line') it does open my email client, which happens to be gmail. Do me a favor and click on my email link and tell me what happens on your computer. I'm just curious.
On my PC, it opens up Outlook Express and has populated the "To:" field with your gmail address. However, that's not how I would go about sending you an email because I don't use the Outlook Express client on my PC. I use a web based mail system. But if I were using Outlook Express, then everything would be working right. But, this just confirms what I thought. Basically what it does is it will open up whatever is set as the default email client on the PC and prepopulate the TO field.
Using web based email doesn't necessarily foul up the whole system, because what I would do at that point would be to just copy the email address out of the Outlook Express form, close Outlook Express, and then go to my web based email, compose a new email, and paste in your email address.
@spanish, mine use to do that too. I never used Outlook Express and it just always aggravated me everytime I hit an email link and OE opended up and not the web based email client I use (gmail). Finally I did some extensive digging around and somewhere found an obscure setting (of which I can't remember now) and changed the default email client to be gmail.
So, believe me, if you are having this problem, it can be fixed. I just don't know the steps I took to do it.
You’re blogging has really come on when I look back over previous posts. Actually I arrived here from a forum on an unrelated topic. Worth surfing sometimes. Thanks.
On my PC, it opens up Outlook Express and has populated the "To:" field with your gmail address. However, that's not how I would go about sending you an email because I don't use the Outlook Express client on my PC. I use a web based mail system. But if I were using Outlook Express, then everything would be working right. But, this just confirms what I thought. Basically what it does is it will open up whatever is set as the default email client on the PC and prepopulate the TO field.
Using web based email doesn't necessarily foul up the whole system, because what I would do at that point would be to just copy the email address out of the Outlook Express form, close Outlook Express, and then go to my web based email, compose a new email, and paste in your email address.