HTML Emails: Text on Graphics

[Maestro]

I am using FrontPage to composer HTML emails. Everything works just
fine...except when I place text on top of a graphic. The graphic sends just
fine, but the text does not come through. Can anybody tell me what I'm doing
wrong or not doing...as the case may be? (Yes, the graphics were converted
to GIFs.)

 

[Maestro]

Thanks so much for your help, Murray. What I did to overlay the text on the
graphic was click on the text button in the picture toolbar, which then
creates a text box, and iff I go. Is this what you mean by absolute
positioning?

I guess I could use my graphics editor to insert the text. Guess I would
then just save that whole graphic and insert it in the email?

 

[Maestro]

Okay, Murray (and others) - I found some help on the Internet with regard to
inserting text on a graphic: Click once on the graphic to select it, then
click once on the text button (on the graphics toolbar). A text box appears
on the graphic that you can begin typing in. To create a hyperlink to this
textbox, right-click on the text box and select "Picture Hotspot Properties."
Type in the web address to which you wish to link.

That doesn't make sense to me! The implication is that I have saved the
text somewhere first. If that's true, then why would I need to create a text
box and type in the text I wanted?

H-E-L-P !

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Do not use this feature/function as it can only be viewed in IE browsers running under Windows.

Add your text to your graphic in a image / graphic editing application outside of FP, then import
the finished image back into FP and then insert on your page, however the image must available on
web site for it to be viewing in an email when created with FP.
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Thomas A. Rowe
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[Maestro]

Thanks for the help, Thomas. I tried that earlier today, and the quality of
the text wasn't great at all. (What I did was convert the whole thing into a
GIF image at 150dpi. Should I save it as a JPEG instead and/or at a higher
resolution?

 

[Murray]

ANything higher than 72dpi is a waste on the web. If the image is a
photo-type image it should be JPG. If it's line-art it should be GIF/PNG.

 

[Maestro]

Thanks, Murray - I'm going to try again. If only I could figure out what
gives with that "Picture Hotspot Properties"...

 

[Ronx]

The hotspot enables you to use the text as a link to another page. Add
several text boxes, and the image becomes a navigation bar. Note that
the FrontPage method converts the image to a poor quality .gif in the
process.

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