How to send nicely formatted emails 1

[victora]

How can i send a nicely formatted emails like those I'm getting from macromedia, microsoft, etc.. that looks like a web page with all the nice graphics, links and all. Must have been an html created by a wysiwyg tool, i.e. dreamweaver.

I'm trying to figure out how to send our newsletter to our doctors and members with all those pretty colors, links and other goodies...

thanks

 

[SpotLizard]

Victoria,

Depends on your e-mail client and the e-mail client of the recipients.

In MS Outlook you can go to the Tools menu, select Options then click on the Mail Format tab. Select HTML as your message format. You can also choose to use MS Word as your e-mail editor (on the same tab).

If your recipients don't use Outlook or have mail clients that are not configured to use HTML formatted mail then your e-mails will appear as a jumbled mass of text and HTML code.

Hope this helps.

SL

 

[victora]

SL,
Thanks. I checked my options and its already HTML format. Now, how can I create my pretty email in HTML. Or my question should be, what tool can I use to create an HTML when I'm in Outlook? Can I import a pre-made HTML from, say dreamweaver?

VA

 

[jrbarnett]

SpotLizard,

I would take account of what Victora said. Not every email client can view HTML email (or rich text). For those that can't it will appear as a jumbled mess.
If you want to do this, a far better approach is to put it up on the web, then send them a plain text email with a hyperlink to the page.

John