Anyone know how to make this kind of contact form for a website?

[bassguy]

I need some help with creating a website (need to make one as a project in one of my classes in my sound production course )

So I'm making the site on myself as an engineer, and I wanted to put a contact button in. I can pretty easily find out how to make a box that goes on my website where people can type a message and have it emailed to me, but I was wondering if anyone knows how to make the type of contact button where you click a link and it opens your email client and creates a new email addressed to me.

I'm terrible at explaining things, so as an example, if you go to Will Putney's website ( http://www.willputneyproductions.com/# )and click the contact button, for me that opens gmail in my browser on a new email addressed to who I assume is his manager.

So if any web designing sneapsters are able to help out that would be great, I've been googling for ages but I don't even know what to call this kind of contact form

 

[SocialNumb]

mailto:your@email.com

That's it. It's old school and I personally find it annoying.

 

[Djunn]

Just use this: mailto:youremailaddress@yourdomain.com

 

[Djunn]

Damn SocialNumb!

 

[bassguy]

Haha damn, it was that easy all along. thanks guise

 

[SocialNumb]

It happens.

 

[Morgan C]

YEah, I find it pretty annoying tbh. I've never used a non-web-based email so that just makes it harder to copy and paste, and if I misclick it takes 10 years trying to open Outlook.

 

[Sloan]

It's worth it to put the extra time into building a good contact form. Mailto links don't hide your address from bots so expect to get spam. Also, a form allows you to kind of focus the initial contact with information that you know your gonna need - like make a phone number required info etc...

 

[TheDriller]

I absolutely hate that mailto shit,

especially given that no-one uses native email clients these days, a click on one of those links just leads to frustration when Outlook chokes itself trying to start up.

 

[Melb_shredder]

Yep... Mailto is balls! A good contact form would be best

 

[StefTD]

if you do a nice contact form, don't use really fucked up captchas, simple ones are going to work, too

god damn, I hate captchas with passion, that's why I haven't integrated one on my page and use a nice
contact form, so all the spam has to be pasted in the form and you have to enter a valid e-mail adress,
still a chance for spam, but it's reduced alot.

 

[SocialNumb]

First thing I do when I get a new comp and or upgrade the OS is trash the email client. Can't stand them.

 

[006]

Another vote for hating mailto. I guarantee the overwhelming majority of your target demographic uses web-based e-mail. And, at least some of them will do "copy link" and paste into gmail/hotmail/etc. and not know to take off the "mailto" part, resulting in you never getting that e-mail, potentially missing out on business. That's where it starts, and it ends with the world's destruction. Your call.

 

[SocialNumb]

For what it's worth, when I copy the email addy I don't get the "mailto:" part of it. Using Chrome.

 

[bassguy]

Alright guys, just because you all hate mailto so much I'll make a nice little box

 

[StefTD]

the problem with the mailto: thing is, it's not about opinions there imho, it's just about the quality,
mailto: is a pretty old concept and there are way better things nowadays.

 

[Atheist]

^ Yeah, like writing your email address, so people can you whichever email client they want.