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I recall a while back people were complaining about not being able to send email on an Android. This week I am out of town, reading my email but unable to respond while I am out of my hotel room, as the same clients send email after email hoping for a response.

I got tired of that. In the old days we used to have a text email version, which might have done it. But that’s not available anymore, and what is is so junked up with javascript that you can’t type in the text window.

So I just made a little form to send regular email. That’s all it does, though there is the possibility it might be possible to switch between that view and ptv view if AsianProgrammerGuy gets working on it.

The link. You can use it right where it is hosted, and it will work on the account you happen to be logged in to. If that’s what you want to do, bookmark it.

Or you can view the source, copy, and host it yourself. And of course, bookmark it.

Sending mail on an Android is still a bit of a pain in the ass, but at least it’s doable with this.

AsianGuyProgrammer might make it part of his mega Android App if he gets around to developing one. That would be convenient.

Cara of CarasCam made this tutorial, and I made my first contact form using it.

If you are comfortable with editing something you don’t really understand, you can probably get it to work for you. Instead of being an HTML page with instructions, it is a script that has inline notes:

“// This is an inline note telling you what to do”

explaining what each part does and where you need to edit to make it work for you. This is how many free script tutorials you will find on the web work.

Save it as a .php file, edit it, then upload it to your site. The link you put to it will display a contact form that will submit to your email, after you have it set up.

Free script

I’ll put an assortment of forms here for you to use as inspiration. These will be more expensive than the little sidebar ones in the previous post. Feel free to play with them. Samples are not actually sending out email.