Maybe this is really simple for many, but I still see people without an email link on their individual posts. The reason for it is if a reader finds the post very useful, then they can easily email it to a friend, helping increase the readership of your blog.

For WordPress…

<?
$emailTitle =urlencode(the_title('','',FALSE));
$emailTitle = str_replace('+', ' ', $emailTitle);
?>
<a href="mailto:?subject=<? echo $emailTitle;
?>&body=Check this out!%0A%0A<?php the_permalink()
?>">Email this Post</a>

For Movable Type (if your static pages are PHP)…

<?
$emailTitle =urlencode('<$MTEntryTitle encode_php="q"$>');
$emailTitle = str_replace('+', ' ', $emailTitle);
?>
<a href="mailto:?subject=<? echo $emailTitle;
?>&body=Check this out!%0A%0A<$MTEntryPermalink$>"
>Email this Post</a>

If your MT static pages are not PHP, then I doubt it will work for you.

If you want to use a little envelope graphic, there’s a tons of icons at http://famfamfam.com/. Grab the “Silk” package, and make sure you give him a link back. You’d want to format the image part like this…

<img src="envelope.png" title="Email this Post">

The title tag is needed so the text will appear when the image is mousedover.

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