This is a really easy tip, which explains how to add the word “Contact” (or Email Me or whatever) to the navigation bar, with an automatic mailto link. This is handy because the default “Email me” button in iWeb doesn’t let you choose an email address, it just uses your default one. So if you are creating a web page for someone else or want to use a different email address on your own website, this is an easy way to put an email link on every page.
First, create a blank page in iWeb called Contact. Include it in the navigation bar.
Write something on the page like, “If you have reached this page, I am in the process of updating my site. Click here to email me: you@email.com”
Next, publish.
Now, the post-publishing part.
In all html pages of your site, search for
href=”Contact.html”
Replace it with
If you have blog or podcast pages, you will also need to search for
href=”../Contact.html”
and replace it with
For good measure, add the following code to the header of Contact.html
< META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" content="0;URL=”mailto:you@email.com" >
This will automatically cause the email link to open up should anybody accidentally reach the dummy page.
Remember, if you make a change to a page like this post-publishing, and later re-publish, you have to make the html changes again! Set up a Find/Replace command in MassReplaceIt and you can do this very quickly.
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