Learned a cool hack (excuse me if this is old hat to you guys).
If you have html email, you can send an email button like the one pictured here:
and when you click it, there is a pre-filled out email:
In order to make a button, you have to use CSS because for some odd reason, you can't use a <button > tag.
Steps:
Begin with the following template. Take note of the quotation marks.
Add the '?' to the end of the email address.
Place & at the end of the subject.
Code:
<a id='elink' href="mailto:myemail@myemail.com?
subject=Subject Line Goes Here&
body=Name:
Phone #:
Company Name:
Thanks!"
</a>
Then replace all special characters with ASCII:
Code:
<a id='elink' href="mailto:myemail@myemail.com?
subject=Subject%20Line%20Goes%20Here&
%0A%0A
body=Name%3A
%0A%0A
Phone%20%23%3A
%0A%0A
Company%20Name%3A
%0A%0A
Thanks%21"
</a>
Then mush it all together:
Code:
<a id='elink' href="mailto:myemail@myemail.com?subject=Subject%20Line%20Goes%20Here&%0A%0Abody=Name%3A%0A%0APhone%20%23%3A%0A%0ACompany%20Name%3A%0A%0AThanks%21"</a>
The above derived because someone at work received an email with the above feature and asked if I could look into getting it done. Was a pretty easy task. Just copy / paste into Dreamweaver. The first time I did it, I created it through Internet Explorer. In that case, you don't have to use the ASCII to get this to work. I have no idea why this is so, but it was pretty embarrassing to see it flame out on the first test run, but oh well.
After getting it done, the person who requested it asked me: "I gave it to you in 12-point font and there was a bolded header. Why is it all in 10-point font now?"
"It just doesn't work that way. It's in ASCII and you can't format ASCII code."
"So, it's going to just go with my computer's default and you can't force it to go different?"
"Nope. Sorry. Well, at least I don't know how... I mean, it's better than nothing, right?"