I'm designing an html email to be read using Outlook 2007.
I want to add an image, a logo, positioned first thing on the email.
How do I include an image? I feel like I need a path to do the usual:
<img src=”mypath/image.gif”>
But I don’t think I can include paths to anything. What should I do?
Thanks a ton
You can reference an attached image using the cid: scheme.
In general, you would let a tool handle this for you. Last time I had cause to do this, I write the program that sent the mail in Perl and used the Email::MIME::CreateHTML module.
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I created a signature card using HTML. But sometimes when I attach or send reply using the card, its respective HTML code is displayed and not the card.
Have anyone faced these kind of problems?
(This is a total re-write of my previous answer.)
When creating a signature in Outlook, don't manually add HTML. Add whatever you words/fonts/colors/images that you want in your signature, and Outlook will automagically create the necessary HTML for you.
Bottom line: This is not really a programming question.
Is there a way that could convert all mailto:example#exapmle.com email links in a html page to images showing same content/email address (I didn't have reputation to post images, an example image ). I knew some website provide such kind of service, but it could be done one by one. I have a webpage have many email links, so want to ask a better or smarter way to do that.
Any response would be appreciated. Thanks.
Yes. One way to do this is using PHP. Basically, what you are describing is writing text to an image. This can be done using the PHP imagettftext() function. See http://php.net/manual/en/function.imagettftext.php for more info.
How do you add HTML into an email in Blackberry?
I've tried multipart emails, but that does not seem to work. I am asking how to send an HTML formatted email from an application running on a Blackberry, if I am wording too vaguely, please let me know how to rephrase my question
All HTML emails work the same way - the HTML is in the email body and any images must have a fully-qualified url (http://...).
CSS support is limited and must be defined inline statements (style="") on each element (no stylesheets). Background images are not supported. Tables must be used for layouts (awful but true).
You are talking about the HTML mailers, which are tricky and depend on the client Machine, where they will be eventually seen. Your HTML should be fully table layout based, Styles need to be inline. Below is an HTML mailer that is like almost perfect to display correctly on any device, whether it is MAC or PC or iPad or Blackberry.
http://www.dreamincode.net/iem/display.php?M=2016&C=f945ef50b90408df6b2eb3054df75e79&S=63&L=1&N=25
If you view the source of this page, you would come to know how the mailers need to be build out.
To send the mailers as a mass mailing list you need an Email Marketing Software's.
i was trying to get a newsletter done in html . is it mandatory to use while creating a newsletter email template ? what else do I need to take into account to encode the newsletter ?
To get started you can use the templates provided here. When you have some time on your hands go here to understand more about the difficulties associated with creating HTML email.
I think your question is whether you need HTML to make a newsletter. If it's not please ignore my answer.
You don't need to use HTML for your email newsletter, you can just use plain text. However if you want to markup your email newsletter (have colors, images, etc) you do need HTML.
Properly doing HTML-email is difficult. I'm guessing you're not an HTML expert, so I'd advise you to either keep to plain text (which for most purposes is absolutely fine) or use an email newsletter service like MailChimp.
You'll need an application to send your html newsletter from.
http://www.campaignmonitor.com has an easy to use user interface as well as a free trial.
How does one embedd an image in HTML so that the image is delivered with the html file content and does not need a separate trip to the server to retrieve the image? We need this to embed company logo's into signatures before they leave the mail server. We don't want to use a client side solution like thunderbird's or outlook's functionality to add signatures.
thanks
What you need to do is encode the file to Base64, and include it like this:
<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhUAA..(the rest of your base64 encoded file)..">
http://www.sweeting.org/mark/blog/2005/07/12/base64-encoded-images-embedded-in-html
http://dean.edwards.name/weblog/2005/06/base64-ie/
The standard solution for that is to add the image as an attachment. Every attachment has a ContentID, so you can embed the image using: <img src="cid:ContentID" />.
This will embed the image in the email, not in the html.
I don't think the W3C HTML specs really allow you to do this.
But if you really want to, you could create a pixel-width by pixel-height table, and set the cell background colors one by one to create your image.
It can't be done, but that's OK because modern browsers use a KeepAlive feature so that the connection to the server is retained for image loading.
Here's a handy Image to HTML converter - warning creates NASTY HTML! :)
The question that comes to my mind is - why you don't want a normal <img> tag in your html?
Attaching a image to the body of html might sound tempting, but it will definetly slow down the email downloading times, and some people use stuff like gprs connection so they want to limit their bandwidth.
IMO having images inside your html is pure evil. But that's just out of curiosity, to ask why you want such a solution - seems #nickf alredy gave you a good one :)
I reevaluated solutions for this recently.
According to this blog the support for inline attachments has been improved, new stuff was pushed to the mainline Rails repo.
I didn't check which Rails version is lucky enough to contain this change, though.
For my 2.3.x deployments I used the inline_attachment gem.