Sending HTML emails

[KiwiBrian]

I am using Outlook 2003 and want to send a few HTML emails to friends. These
will contain some graphics and internal links from an internal index to
specific portions of the page.
I am reasonably familiar with HTML and CSS for creating web pages but am
finding conflicting advice regarding this subject of HTML emails..
Some advice is to host all images on my website and use absolute addresses
to refer to them, while other advice is to send them with the email and with
relative addressing. This make me wonder if internal links from the index at
the start of the email, to the desired target paragraphs will work as they
would be relative links.
Is one situation for older versions of Outlook, or is there some other
explanation.
Can someone clarify this and ideally point me to a web page article that is
accurate.
Thanks for any help and seasons greetings to everyone.
Brian Tozer

 

[jack.murphy]

KiwiBrian,

"Best practices" for HTML emails dictate that you host all the images
on your website and use absolute addressing to refer to them.

In tests I have done for www.jkn.com (a web-based "web page emailer")
we found that including the images in the email itself caused massive
delivery delays in terms of hours and even days (depending on the total
byte size of the images)

Outlook by default includes images in the email when you use "Send |
Page By Email" and this is one of the reasons why it is so slow.
Naturally, we implemented JumpKnowledge with absolute addressing, in
line with "best practices".

I would like to mention that CSS also poses a special challenge because
most email clients do not allow external CSS to be used. www.jkn.com
takes special care to handle CSS to be compatible with all email
clients.

Feel free to use www.jkn.com to learn how to convert web page into
email-compatible HTML.

Jack Murphy
www.jkn.com - Email any web page to anyone

 

[Chuck Davis]

KiwiBrian,

"Best practices" for HTML emails dictate that you host all the images
on your website and use absolute addressing to refer to them.

In tests I have done for www.jkn.com (a web-based "web page emailer")
we found that including the images in the email itself caused massive
delivery delays in terms of hours and even days (depending on the total
byte size of the images)

Outlook by default includes images in the email when you use "Send |
Page By Email" and this is one of the reasons why it is so slow.
Naturally, we implemented JumpKnowledge with absolute addressing, in
line with "best practices".

I would like to mention that CSS also poses a special challenge because
most email clients do not allow external CSS to be used. www.jkn.com
takes special care to handle CSS to be compatible with all email
clients.

Feel free to use www.jkn.com to learn how to convert web page into
email-compatible HTML.

Jack Murphy
www.jkn.com - Email any web page to anyone

Brian,
As Jack stated, host all images on your Web site and use absolute addresses
to refer to them. I use this technique several times a week with over 1,450
subscribers. Then, I post the message pages to the my Web site
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