How do you send html e-mails? The ones that look like actual web pages?

Question

This seems silly. I can knock up fairly decent looking web pages, but I don't know how they design those flashy e-mails that contain tables, images - looking exactly like web pages.

I click view source etc, copy the text, paste that into a new e-mail and all that gets sent is the coding.

What am I missing here?

Answer 1

They are web pages! In Outlook Express when you are creating an email you click message, then New using, then Web page. then you enter the URL of the web page and you can send someone a copy of your web page. It;s HTML and so if they click a link it opens their browser and it takes them to your website. Do not do this if you have adsense on the page. Adsense isn't allowed in an email. There is a site in Belgium for ex-pats that uses that technique all the time. They send out a copy of their Home Page as a newsletter as an email. I did it with my website - then forgot and put adsense on the page! lol

Answer 2

Just FYI, many web based email providers don't display HTML emails. This is because a lot of spammers use HTML to bypass the spam blockers. Most spam blockers search for certain terms, like viagra, sex, porn, etc. Now, spammers just encode all this stuff in HTML which helps to bypass those spam checkers.



So, just an FYI, services such as gmail and such may block the HTML portion of your emails unless the user specifies otherwise.

Answer 3

try saving the file as .html first., when you pull up the .html then copy & paste the contents in the email. or copy and paste the contents of the web page if it is basic( not to too flashy cause some things will not display if it is)

Answer 4

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/code-html-email-newsletters



http://www.emailaddressmanager.com/tips/html-email.html