Thursday, May 14, 2009

How to add a "Email me" link in your blog/webpage?

This post explains how to add a "Email me" link in your blog/webpage.
With this,if some one clicks on the "Email me" link, the visitor's microsoft outlook express will be open by default.If he/she wants to send via other services like gmail,yahoo,rediff,etc..they will simply copy your email address from the outlook express and send.[see the below screenshot]
how to add email me link

So,how to do this?
Simple! look at the below example.
If your email is some abc[at]yahoo[dot]com, here is the html code to add
<a href="mailto:abc@yahoo.com">Email me </a>

If you want to add this in your blogger blog sidebar,do this
Sign in to your blogger dashboard>layout>add a page element>html/javascript
and paste the above code(don't forget to change the email address in the above code with your's) and SAVE THE CHANGES.

questionBut,why are we adding this clickable email links instead of giving your visitors directly your email address?
Good question!If you give it directly,then search engines,etc crawl it and there are more chances for the spammers to find your email and your personal emails are flooded with full of spam which is not goodtwisted.

How to transfer blogger(blogspot) blog between two accounts

This post explains how to transfer blogger(blogspot) blogs between two accounts:

Suppose if you have many blogs in one account and a fewer in another,transfering a few to other account will make it easier to manage.

Another thing is, if you are trying to sell your blog,you need to transfer your blog to your partner's account.So,let's see how to do this:


1.First Sign into your blogger dashboard. Click on the settings link next to your blog name.[see the below screenshot]




2.Now,click on the Permissions


3.Before transfering your blog ie. before making someone admin,you need to first invite him and make him as author.Click on the 'ADD AUTHORS' button to add.


4.Enter the person's email id and click on the INVITE button.



5.After inviting him,blogger will send an email to that person asking him to visit a link and confirm that he is willing to contribute to your blog.


6.Once the invitee confirmed,go to the permissions page once again.Now,you will see an option to grant admin privileges to your partner.Click on the 'grant admin privileges' link and confirm.






7.Now,your blog has two admins.You will see the admin 'remove' link next to the author's name.Remove your's as admin(and also as author).Now your blog will be transfered from your account to your partner's.


That's it! Now,you easily transfered your blog from one account to another account.

Leave a reply here if you like the post or if you have any questions.