Hi all,<br />
I'm a graphic designer, and my boss wants me to design an advertisement/invitation for an email blast, that is in HTML. Never done it before. I know basic HTML, but how do you set this up for email. Any help appreciated.
<!--content-->There are a couple of ways to send the e-mail and design the e-mail itself. First, designing the e-mail advertisement:<br />
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You will probably have the most luck with a point-and-click web page builder like Macromedia's Dreamweaver, Microsoft Frontpage
, or if you want to go the free software route, Download <!--more--> Netscape 7.0x and use the Composer program that comes with Netscape.<br />
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If you're going to use any images in your e-mail, save a copy of the images on a web server. When you specify a source for the images on your html page, just write in the complete url to the image saved on a web server (e.g. <img src=http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/archive/index.php/"http://www.somedomain.com/images/picture.gif" ...><br />
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That's the only way I can think of to include images in html e-mails.<br />
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Sending the E-mail:<br />
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If you have an e-mail account with Yahoo!, you can send e-mail in HTML format. You can also specify in Netscape's e-mail program, Messenger, to send e-mail in HTML format, if you want to use an e-mail client/program.<br />
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If you're using Yahoo! mail, copy the HTML between the <body> and </body> tags and paste it into the compose message text box. Do a test e-mail just to make sure it works, since I haven't tried pasting html and sending the message as html.<br />
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If you are using an e-mail client to send the html e-mail, you can design the e-mail right in the compose message window. It might take a while to make it look like you want, and you might have more limited functionality than you would with Dreamweaver or Netscape Composer, but it would get the job done.<br />
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You also might be able to create the page in Composer, then copy the page in the design view and paste it into the compose message window.<br />
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Then you could save the HTML e-mail as a draft for later use.<br />
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Links:<br />
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Netscape Browser Suite<br />
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Macromedia Dreamweaver:<br />
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Free to try!<br />
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I'd be happy to help out if you go the Netscape route. And heck, it's free software besides.<!--content-->I have Dreamweaver MX, so I will use that to construct the HTML. Thanks for your help. I will give it a go and send a test message later today. Many thanks again!<!--content-->Successfully created and sent my test HTML out today. Created it with Dreamweaver, uploaded the graphics to my web server, Opened the html file in Microsoft Word and with it's email tool that sends the HTML via Outlook. Thanks again for your tips! This forum is great!<!--content-->
I'm a graphic designer, and my boss wants me to design an advertisement/invitation for an email blast, that is in HTML. Never done it before. I know basic HTML, but how do you set this up for email. Any help appreciated.
<!--content-->There are a couple of ways to send the e-mail and design the e-mail itself. First, designing the e-mail advertisement:<br /><br />
You will probably have the most luck with a point-and-click web page builder like Macromedia's Dreamweaver, Microsoft Frontpage
, or if you want to go the free software route, Download <!--more--> Netscape 7.0x and use the Composer program that comes with Netscape.<br /><br />
If you're going to use any images in your e-mail, save a copy of the images on a web server. When you specify a source for the images on your html page, just write in the complete url to the image saved on a web server (e.g. <img src=http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/archive/index.php/"http://www.somedomain.com/images/picture.gif" ...><br />
<br />
That's the only way I can think of to include images in html e-mails.<br />
<br />
<br />
Sending the E-mail:<br />
<br />
If you have an e-mail account with Yahoo!, you can send e-mail in HTML format. You can also specify in Netscape's e-mail program, Messenger, to send e-mail in HTML format, if you want to use an e-mail client/program.<br />
<br />
If you're using Yahoo! mail, copy the HTML between the <body> and </body> tags and paste it into the compose message text box. Do a test e-mail just to make sure it works, since I haven't tried pasting html and sending the message as html.<br />
<br />
If you are using an e-mail client to send the html e-mail, you can design the e-mail right in the compose message window. It might take a while to make it look like you want, and you might have more limited functionality than you would with Dreamweaver or Netscape Composer, but it would get the job done.<br />
<br />
You also might be able to create the page in Composer, then copy the page in the design view and paste it into the compose message window.<br />
<br />
Then you could save the HTML e-mail as a draft for later use.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
<br />
Netscape Browser Suite<br />
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp">http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp</a><!-- m --><br />
<br />
Macromedia Dreamweaver:<br />
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/">http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/</a><!-- m --><br />
Free to try!<br />
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I'd be happy to help out if you go the Netscape route. And heck, it's free software besides.<!--content-->I have Dreamweaver MX, so I will use that to construct the HTML. Thanks for your help. I will give it a go and send a test message later today. Many thanks again!<!--content-->Successfully created and sent my test HTML out today. Created it with Dreamweaver, uploaded the graphics to my web server, Opened the html file in Microsoft Word and with it's email tool that sends the HTML via Outlook. Thanks again for your tips! This forum is great!<!--content-->