Re: FN-FORUM: html emails

date posted 3rd January 2004 12:04

> Please could someone either briefly explain or point me to easy-to-follow
> instructions on how to create html emails i.e. with links and graphics
> linked to internet. Also, I'd like to be able to monitor success rates
etc.

A short list of things I can remember at the moment ;)

1) include your stylesheet in the page rather than using a link to an
external one
2) use fully-qualified names for all your images (http://mydomain.com) etc
rather than using
3) create a web-based version of the email too and include a link in the
email saying something like 'If you cannot view this message properly,
please visit http://mydomain.com/newsletter' (If you do things cleverly you
can create the web-based version and use a script to create your email
message from that)
4) Include a text-only version

If you want to track success rates etc you could try using
http://www.constantcontact.com/home.jsp and if you want a tool to send the
emails from your own machine try GroupMail (http://www.infacta.com/)

HTH,

Andy