Providing E-Mail in Your Webpage

With the increased popularity of SILK Web customized servers, many SILK webmasters need to provide an e-mail facility for their pages. Since many users accessing webpages have not set their browsers up to transmit e-mail, the standard browser’s "Mail-to" capability does not work. A simple solution for owners is SILK Web’s Easymail facility.

SILK Easymail to the Rescue

With Easymail webpage owners can provide a way for anyone who has a WYLBUR account, initials and password to transmit e-mail via a simple hypertext link in the webpage. An example of such a link:

<ahref="http://silk.nih.gov/easymail?to=webmaster@my.site.gov">Send Comments and Suggestions </a> When the person reading the page clicks on "Send Commands and Suggestions," an Easymail form appears that is addressed (by default) to webmaster@my.site.gov.

SILK Formsmail for Gathering Information

SILK webmasters also need a convenient way to gather information and opinions via a form on their webpages. Sending such information to a specific e-mail address is very easy using the SILK Formsmail interface. Moreover, with Formsmail, the person accessing the webpage does not need to have a DCRT account, initials and password.

To see a discussion of all the options (e.g., "CC" and "Subject") available on Easymail and Formsmail, go to the SILK webpage http://silk.nih.gov and click on "Documentation" under "About Silk Web."

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