dreamweaver question, right i have set up a website, everything works, apart from the mailto command?

Question

i have set it in a link in an image properties, this is how i am writing the text in the link

mailto:[e-mail]

that is not my e-mail it's 1 i just made up

when i view the site in a browser, when i got to click on the link, it takes me to outlook express, i dnt want it to do that, i want it to take me directly 2, yahoo mail, is there a way i can do this, also am i writing the mailto correctly

will a mailto command work without an anchor, i dnt have a contact us set up on the page either, do i need that, the prob is!ive tried sending msg's 2 and from outlook and it don't work, ive tried sending msg's from outlook to my e-mail adress, but nothing happens

Answer 1

that's how mailto command works

it takes you to the default system mail program



you can't go to web-based mail system

Answer 2

The reason it opens up Outlook is because the mailto function calls on the default email editor. Outlook just happens to be YOUR default. On a website, it will open up the user's default editor. Which is not likely to be yahoo...



Now, if you want them to be able to send you email easily, make a contact mailer form. The scripts are pretty widely available....but you will need a mailer to send it through, or you will need to use the PHP mail function.

Answer 3

Set Yahoo Mail as your default mail editor.

Open IE click tools>> internet Options>> Programs and Set Email to Yahoo Mail.

Answer 4

To link from an image, you'll want something like:









I'm not sure you'll be able to dictate where the link goes without some slightly in-depth coding. It's often the end-user's system that will decide what to do with a link.

Answer 5

So is your layout like this? :











That's how it should look, good luck!

Jake M