I have a stupid question so it should be easy to answer! I just got “Creating Stunning HTML email” but it’s not clear to me how you get the html creatiion into email. If I code the html (with DOCTYPE statementsat the beginning) in the email message box and send it to a second email address, I get only the html code.
Do you compose the email in MS Expression and then copy and paste? Do you creat in notepad, display in a browser and then copy and paste that? How do you do it?
What email client are you sending from? In IE, you go to Page>send page by email. In Lotus Notes, you have to ‘import file’. If the images are saved in the correct folders and nested correctly they should appear once you import.
Steve D
thanks for the reply. I am using Notepad and can do all I want except for one thing - how do insert an image? since I only have the one file, I can’t figure out to put in an image. Copy and paste would do it and I can’t use the full path because that won’t be in the email. I’m about a 30 handicap when it comes to HTML, so I’d grreatly appreciate some guidance and expecially an example.
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It depends what email client you’re using.
I’m lumbered with Outlook 2000 at work, whose HTML engine is completely and utterly b0rked - if I want to send a proper HTML email with proper code (rather than the odd bit of bold or colour), I write it up in Notepad, save it as a .htm file, then in Outlook start a new email and Insert > File > choose the file and “Insert as text”. Bingo, it appears in the email all ready to go, and Outlook doesn’t do too much demolition work on it.
I don’t think that the book relates to creating emails from your email client, such as Outlook Express or Gmail. Instead, the book appears to be for programmers who use a server-side programming language, such as PHP, to create the emails.
If it helps though, there is a code archive that provides code from the book, and templates that you can use.