HTML Trick #1

Once in a while, I'll mention little tricks that I've learned while making bad-ass websites. Okay, while trying to make bad-ass websites. Anyway, at work, part of my duties is to coordinate meetings and compile numbers of people who are going to attend them. The layman's term is "RSVP," if I remember correctly... Anyway, a problem I recently discovered is that when coordinating multiple meetings at once, many respondents don't specify for which meeting they are replying. It's aggravating trying to figure out which meeting they're coming to, and embarrassing to have to ask them each time. The best solution to this problem is to embed a hyperlink to your email with a subject line. This is how you do it: <a href="mailto:youremail@abc.com?subj=Email Subject">clickable text</a>. In this example, when you click on "clickable text", your mail application (such as Outlook, Outlook Express or Lotus Notes, for example) will open, and you should see "Email Subject" in the subject line. Now, when anyone responds to your meeting notices by clicking on your email link, the subject shows up automatically, and no one has to remember to type it in. Easy!