What is the easiest way to create an email in HTML/CSS?

Answer 1

There isn't really a way to create emails in HTML. What you can do, however, is formulate your mailto-links with parameters. Most email clients will respect:

1. subject
2. body
3. cc
4. bcc

These values need to be url encoded and passed on as query string. Example:

<a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=my%20subject&body=Content">mail me</a>

In the example above, you can see that I added GET parameters to the email. The format is ?KEY=VALUE[&KEY2=VALUE2]. Here, I added subject and body. The "%20" is a result of url-safe encoding (tool: https://www.urlencoder.org/) for a space.

That said, there are services for handling emails processed by a contact form and as soon as you feel comfortable with backend technology, you will notice that sending SMTP emails is not rocket science. but of course, it still requires some experience and is a hurdle in the beginning.