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A worthwhile feature of web pages is a "footer" at the bottom of a page that provides information about the author and the document, maybe the last date it was modified, as well as a means to send the author a message by e-mail.

This is the place for the address tag which just stylizes a block of text in italic and offsets it to a new line.

It is a good idea to make footers brief, informative, and consistent between your different web pages. Some useful information to include is:

• Title or subject of the current page
• Date it was created/updated
• Copyright if appropriate (or even meaningful?)
• Name and e-mail for the web page author
• Name and hypertext link to affiliation/organization

As examples, see the footers at the bottom of every web page in this tutorial. In composing your own style, take a look at other web pages for ideas. Imitation still is a very high form of flattery!

The HTML format for the address tag looks like:

    <address>
      text text text text text text text text text 
      text text text text text text text text text 
    </address>    

<address>
<b>Page Title</b><br>
Last Updated February 31, 1999<br>
Web Page by Santa 
(santa@north.pole.eorg) <br>
<a href="http://www.north.pole.org/">
North pole Workshop</a><br>
</address>    

Now, suppose someone was reading your page and wanted to send you a comment on how nice your page looked. They would have to write down your e-mail address, launch another program, and send you a message. Wouldn't it be great if you could send email from your Web browser? Well, most web browsers now can!

The way to do this is to create a hypertext link with the mailto type in the URL. Create an email hypertext link like this:

    <a href="mailto:Santa@north.pole.org">send an e-mail to Santa</a>

Danger! Do not put your email plainly as shown. Use a system to hide it, such as

    <a href="mailto:email-santa at north.pole.org">send an e-mail to Santa</a>