[Apple Pro Underwear]

I work for a non-profit charity organization.

netaid.org

we need to embed images into a email. like a invitation with links. how can this be done? which programs? feel free to speak as technical as you need to explain, i may not understand as i am a lowly designer but i have proffessional coders who can make sense of it.

thanks, it is much appreciated

[derbs]

seems like a simple query but it isn't really. My solution requires a PC however

The best way i've found is create your HTML page in dreamweaver (or whatever)

Open the HTML page in Microsoft Word (any recent version will do) but DO NOT modify or save the page (word will totally screw the code)

Click the email button and Word will create a nice formatted html email out of it.


There are other 3rd party ways of doing this, but i've not got much knowledge of them...[/LIST]

[Raman]

You need your email software to spit out email as multipart. What that will do is send the HTML files and then images. If the user's email reader can understand HTML email then it will render it. If not then it will show the user garbage. There is a way so that if the users email client doesn't understand HTML, you can show it alternate content (like a link to type in their browser to see the newsletter).

Go to www.serverobjects.com and look at ASPmail's FAQ section. There's a question that says "how do i send HTML email".

Note that this isn't specific at all to ASP or whatever. As long as your headers for the email are ouputted this way, it will work on any platform, scripting language, etc..

I also believe there is free PHP newsletter software that you may be able to obtain to automate some of it.

[Simon Mundy]

Originally posted by Apple Pro Underwear:
<STRONG>I work for a non-profit charity organization.

netaid.org

we need to embed images into a email. like a invitation with links. how can this be done? which programs? feel free to speak as technical as you need to explain, i may not understand as i am a lowly designer but i have proffessional coders who can make sense of it.

thanks, it is much appreciated</STRONG>

You could just compose your email in Netscape or Mozilla if you don't need any customisation. It'll let you make the whole email message complete with just about all the HTML code you need!

The hardest part about this, of course, is getting your subscription list into Netscape or Mozilla.