Creating/Managing Emails

The last two hints and tips newsletters concerned using mailto links effectively in your website.  In response to those, we have had many questions from webmedley users about managing their webmedley mail accounts.  So this week's tip will provide you with a walk through of how to log in and create/manage your email accounts for your domain.  (more...)

Question of the Week:
Q.) Am I able to create mailto: forms and add them myself or is that something only the encoders at faithandvalues.com can add to the pages?

A.) WebMedley currently doesn't have a form builder function-but it is one of the items on our "future versions" list.  You can create a simple mailto: form in WebMedley, but it will just transmit raw data without it being organized or formatted.  To organize and format information collected in an email form (or any form for that matter) requires writing a server-side script to interpret the data as it is submitted.  That is something that we can custom create for you here if you wish.  If you are interested, you can contact us for a quote on this kind of custom work. 

If you don't mind your data being raw and unformatted, however, there are plenty of places on line that can provide you a tutorial for how to encode a mailto form.  A couple examples would be http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutors/forms.html or http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/30/index4a.html.

Be aware, this is a more advanced type of programming that requires you to access and edit HTML code directly by using the "edit source" button in the WebMedley Toolbar.