Professional-looking email

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Kind of a newbie question. I receive email from companies in HTML format,
with nice graphics and formatting. What do the companies sending this mail
compose the messages in?
 
"Stan" said in news:%[email protected]:
Kind of a newbie question. I receive email from companies in HTML
format, with nice graphics and formatting. What do the companies
sending this mail compose the messages in?
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Using an HTML editor. Or, if they actually know HTML then they can just
use Notepad and insert the HTML tags as needed for formatting and
structure.
 
Vanguard answered your question, but the more experienced email users send
their messages as Plain Text as much as possible because Rich Text (HTML)
tends to bog down the bandwidth.
 
Vanguard answered your question, but the more experienced email users
send their messages as Plain Text as much as possible because Rich Text
(HTML) tends to bog down the bandwidth.
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Minor point of interest, Rich Text Format (RTF) is actually a separate
format somewhat between HTML and Plain Text. It does allow for some fonts
and colors to be used but is not quite as rich and extensive as HTML is.

I actually use RTF as my preferred format. Lets me use the occasional
font element without overloading my message with extraneous nonsense. :)
 
Thanks. So they might use something like FrontPage? These are very
professional-looking messages--the kind like you might receive from
Microsoft.
 
"Stan" said in news:%[email protected]:
Thanks. So they might use something like FrontPage? These are very
professional-looking messages--the kind like you might receive from
Microsoft.
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Frontpage, Ace HTML Editor, HTML-Kit, 3DWeb, and tons of other products
get used to author web pages. However, you cannot then just copy and
paste the HTML code into Outlook [Express] compose window when writing a
new mail. There are probably other tricks, but the one I use is to open
the .htm[l] page in IE and then use its File -> Send -> Page by E-mail.

Of course, if the layout is really slick (i.e., some sales or marketing
type wrote it or commissioned an web author to design it) then it is
likely spam. You don't want to get too fancy with HTML-formatted
e-mails. Many anti-spam products will trigger on too many tricks and
mark the message as probably spam.
 
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