E-mail newsletter

[ormondgator]

Hi ... I'm new to this. Can anyone explain how to convert a simple
FrontPage web page into an e-mail newsletter? I did try the procedure
where you choose File, Send, but have a problem with photos not
appearing. It says my current settings prohibit Active X from running.
How do I change these setting? Anyone able to help?

 

[Andrew Murray]

Make the newsletter in frontpage, and from design view, select the whole
page, then copy it to your email program eg Outllook Express.

Be aware though that you need to make sure all your links and images link
back to the web server as absolute URLS (they won't be embedded as in a Word
document) - in effect "email newsletters' are just web pages within a mail
reader (although mail readers are *not* web browsers and the results may be
unpredictable.

It would be far better just to send out the email with the link to the web
page.

 

[P@tty Ayers]

Make the newsletter in frontpage, and from design view, select the whole
page, then copy it to your email program eg Outllook Express.

Be aware though that you need to make sure all your links and images link
back to the web server as absolute URLS (they won't be embedded as in a
Word document) - in effect "email newsletters' are just web pages within a
mail reader (although mail readers are *not* web browsers and the results
may be unpredictable.

Right, but if you keep the page *simple*, fairly narrow (maybe 600 px, or
"liquid") and use absolute paths, it should work fine.

 

[ormondgator]

Thanks for the advice, but what do you mean by liquid??

 

[Andrew Murray]

Right, but if you keep the page *simple*, fairly narrow (maybe 600 px, or
"liquid") and use absolute paths, it should work fine.

I get email news all the time e.g. from Starwars.com, microsoft.com and some
of those news letters are pretty elaborate i.e. in the same design as their
websites - far from being simple, ...but that's them I suppose....

 

[Andrew Murray]

Thanks for the advice, but what do you mean by liquid??

flexible?
liquid as in "fluid", as in flexible or using % rather than fixed pixel
widths for specifying tables.

just guessing here...

???

 

[P@tty Ayers]

flexible?
liquid as in "fluid", as in flexible or using % rather than fixed pixel
widths for specifying tables.

Yes, that's what I meant; sorry for not being more clear. (Can be done
without tables, too, of course.)