Letting site visitors contact you
Sandvox provides two different ways of allowing site visitors to contact you; Contact Forms and e-mail links.
You can add a Contact Form to your site as a page or object. It provides a set of text boxes which visitors fill in to send you a message.
To use an e-mail link, you write your address in part of the site (generally the Footer or an object) and turn it into a link. Visitors click on the address to begin a new e-mail message to you.
Each method offers some relative advantages and disadvantages, discussed below.
Contact Form
- More secure, since your address is not exposed to spammers.
- Can customize and limit visitors' messages.
- Visitors cannot send you attachments or format their message's text.
The Contact Form service is provided by Karelia as a courtesy only. Karelia cannot and does not guarantee the delivery of email through its relay, any spam filters, or other third party systems.
E-mail Link
- More convenient to many users since they are just sending a regular e-mail.
- All the usual e-mail conveniences are available such as formatted text and attachments.
- Less secure than a Contact Form since your address may be exposed to spammers.
Other options
If neither of the above methods work (perhaps you want people to be able to send you a regular e-mail but you don't want to expose your address, you can obfuscate your email address following these examples:
- Contact me by emailing 'user' at 'domain' dot com
- Contact me by emailing 'user' at this website's domain
- Contact me at userREMOVE_THIS_PART@domain.com
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