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Learning Report #4
Using Email Anchors

The resource I used was an html code tutorial from http://www.echoecho.com/htmllinks11.htm

What I learned

There is more then one type of anchor that you can put on your website. The most common one that you will see on the Internet is link anchors, but you can also use email anchors.

Some of the benefits of email anchors are:

• It allows a person to quickly and easily contact you.
• It allows them to email you using their email program of choice.
• It opens a correspondence in which both of you have each others email addresses saved in your inboxes.

How I implemented email anchors

I used the following steps to implement css background images:

1. I created a contact me page
2. I used the normal link syntax but the in the attribute of href instead of putting a web link I put "mailto:john.draper1@gmail.com".

2. This can be an excellent way to add a communicative property to your website because it allows people to have your email address and for you to get theirs. There are other ways, such as using a form that will automatically submit the email to you, but in such a case you don't know for sure who sent it to you and you can't reply as you can if somebody uses the link page.