web page image in email

[loopsta]

I guess I didn't get my problem accross as I would have liked earlier, what I'm trying to do is send an email that as soon as the user opens it the ad, (which is a dreamweaver file at present as I want it to include a link to a website) opens up in the users email where the text usually is, I have seen it done before are these files created with MIME and does the users browser have to be able to read these files!
Thanks for any info

 

[keysol]

Hi,

Try this.

To begin go into Outlook -> View -> Tools and click on WEB. This will cause to display the Web tool bar.
Type in the URL address field, the path to your web page.
If it's on your hard drive, use Dreamweaver and do File -> Preview in browser to display the page then copy the path from your URL field and paste it in Outlook's URL address field.
Finally, in Outlook, click on Actions -> Send Web page by Email.
The Object field in the Email will display the path. You might want to change that to a more appropriate description.
I hope some of the terms I've used did contribute to some confusion. I'm doing a rough translation from a french version of Outlook.

Good luck!

 

[JillC]

If you're trying to send HTML emails, Loopsta, the thing is your recipients need to be able to read HTML in their email programs. This is why sometimes people send plain text and HTML emails so that if the email client can't read the HTML it will pick up the text. The trick is to "wrap" the graphics in the HTML so that you don't have to send lots of files or require the users to be on-line in order to read your mail. My suggestion is to use Groupmail (because there's a free version) and you can then send your HTML file created in Dreamweaver as an attachment as well as plain text message and you can personalise it like a mail-merge letter. You need to keep your HTML fairly straight forward though - the results will be different depending on the email client and if users are using a web-based mail program, the file will most likely be an attachment which will open a browser. There is no shortcut to testing.
Have fun.