Get a Free E-mail Icon!
January 12th, 2007
How To, Web Based Apps, Web Design
If you have a website and want to spice up the look a little bit, there is an E-mail Icon Generator available for free if you use GMail, Hotmail (MSN), Yahoo! Mail, America Online, or a few other services. You can visit the website and have a e-mail address logo generated for your personal use. Once you get the picture saved on to your desktop, you will need to find web hosting (I recommend Photobucket if you don’t have web hosting at your disposal).
In order to add this to your website in the form of an “E-mail me” link using the picture, you will want to use the following basic HTML code in your settings (remove all the spaces):
<a href="mailto: {E-mail Address}? subject={Pre-filled E-mail Comment}"><img src="{Webhosting address}" border="0" ></a>
And there you have it! Just switch out the bold font (and brackets) with the requested information and your all set. If you run into any problems, feel free to post a comment below.











Now that is pretty cool. Do you have yours yet?
I had one on my old site, but Wordpress allows you to use a plugin submission form to help combat bots finding your E-mail address. (See my Contact Me page at the top as a reference).
I think the E-mail icon is great for those that don’t have Wordpress though.
Even for other non wordpress sites, a contact form would be better than a email image.
Spambots are cleverer these days I guess
Vijay – Spam bots are indeed getting smarter. I’m not sure many non-Wordpress blogs have any easy way to create a safe contact form. The bots typically search the source code for any E-mail addresses, so anytime you enter your E-mail address into the source code, it will likely be picked up by the spam bots.
What a thought provoking post, thank you.
Thanks very much for the information. That is what I was looking for