marmite Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 hi, i'm doing my first html email and wanted some tips. in particular, it seems the easiest thing is to create a webpage, and then send the webpage itself... is that right? question two - what do i do for sizing? the information i've read says to use tables and make them 98% wide... but i wanted a border of images around the edge of the email, which seems to require me to set widths for the images. See http://www.emmasaunders.com/email.html to see what i mean. That's with no width or height set. When i send that as an email you have to scroll. Is there some way of setting a percentage of available screen space, that can be read by all the various email clients? That would be neat. Thanks for your help Emma Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/53587-html-emails/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToonMariner Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 what you have to do is make it work in as many clients as poss... I would advise that you go for a width of about 550px wide and use the horrible old table layout. Don't put any style attributes for background images - use teh backgroundimage attribute for the td instead. HTML email support is not very good so you hav to go for the lowest common denominator. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/53587-html-emails/#findComment-265270 Share on other sites More sharing options...
marmite Posted May 31, 2007 Author Share Posted May 31, 2007 Thanks for this. Is there ANY WAY at all of getting the images to show in the email without the person having to click "download images" ? I guess I'd have to embed them in the email somehow...? I just received an email with inline images which did not require downloading, so I'm sure it's possible... It's important for me because the images are the thing I'm trying to communicate - it's the whole point of the product. Thanks for any help Emma Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/53587-html-emails/#findComment-265445 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 Check the source on that email Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/53587-html-emails/#findComment-265489 Share on other sites More sharing options...
unidox Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 If you have hotmail, you can view the source of email messages, look at the welcome hotmail email and that should give you a pretty good idea Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/53587-html-emails/#findComment-265694 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.