Dilip Damle

Dilip,

> I would like to ask your permission to use the CSS files
> to build my site and to make modifications to the Color Scehmes
> as per my choice.

I have previously replied to a request like this here:
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/emails/FerencPataki.html
Basically, I do not offer any stylesheets to download from my site. The main
site stylesheet was made by a friend of mine. He has never given anyone else
permission to use it as a template - it was designed for my site, not for
redistribution.

The style used as a demonstration on this page
<http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutorials/positionExample.php> is designed as
a tutorial, and you are welcome to use that style as a basis for your own
templates if you want.

Other styles are created by me, and I would prefer to keep them unique for
my site. Please do not copy them.


Mark 'Tarquin' Wilton-Jones - author of http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/

Dilip,

> They use webmail instead, in these circumstances the 'mailto' link
> becomes a nuisance.

The most common alternative is a simple feedback form that sends the
form data to the server. The server then does whatever you want with it,
such as sending you an email, or including it as page content (such as
with forums, blog comments, or guestbooks) after filtering to ensure it
cannot contain harmful content.

> The alternatives to that (to the best of my knowledge) are

There are many ways to convert it into an email, and which is the best
for you has nothing to do with whatever is popular. It will depend
entirely on what is running on your server, and is not dependent on the
user in any way - all their browser needs to do is submit a simple form.

Most (if not all) server-side languages will have some way to send a
mail. If your server supports PHP, then you use PHP. If it supports ASP,
then you use ASP. If it supports CGI then you use whatever scripting
language works with that (typically Perl). If it uses some other
language, then you use whatever language that is. You should follow the
instructions for your chosen server-side language. If your server does
not support any server-side language, then you cannot do anything, and
the only approach is to use mailto: as normal.

For sites where I want to use a form instead of mailto:, I use PHP's
'mail' function to send emails made up from the data they submit, since
this is easy to use, and only requires me to do minimal sanitising to
make sure they submitted a valid email address. For your purposes, you
can use whatever language you are happy with, as long as its supported
by your hosting server. It's entirely up to you.


Mark 'Tarquin' Wilton-Jones - author of http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/