Creating a mailto Hyperlink

The last hyperlink to address in these walkthrough extras is the mailto hyperlink. Formatting a mailto hyperlink is very similar to inserting any other hyperlink. To add a mailto hyperlink to the Contact page, follow these steps:

1.      Display your Contact page in Word.

2.      Scroll down, select the text please send us a note, and press CTRL+K to open the Insert Hyperlink dialog box.

3.      In the Link To section, click the E-mail Address icon. The Insert Hyperlink dialog box changes to show the mailto options.

4.      Click the ScreenTip button, type Send us an e-mail message!, click OK, and then type your e-mail address in the E-mail address box. When you enter your e-mail address, Word precedes a newly created mailto hyperlink with the text mailto:, as shown in the following figure.

Configuring a mailto link

5.      Add a subject line if you want, such as Coral Reef Divers, and then click OK.

6.      To test your mailto link, press CTRL, and then click the link.

While you're on the contact.htm page, you might as well jazz it up a tad by adding an image:

7.      Click before the word Information below the Contact Us heading.

8.      Click Picture on the Insert menu, click From File, and double-click the nudibranch.jpg file.

9.      To align the image, right-click the picture, click Format Picture, click the Square icon on the Layout tab, click Right for the horizontal alignment, and click OK.

10.  Save your work, and then close the contact.htm file.

You've filled three pages with basic content. Excellent job! The remaining tasks for this walkthrough involve populating the gallery pages with images and information. You’ll accomplish those tasks by importing XML data, as described in the remainder of Chapter 10 in the Easy Web Design book.