HTML E-mail

You don't have to put it on your website but you run the real risk that the email content will not work completely in the recipient's email program.  If you concern is providing a link to the page from your main site then don't worry about doing that.  The web version of the email can be a standalone page that is only accessed from the link in the email.

What is the content of the email?  If it is mainly formatted text then that should be well supported.  However if you mean script, images, etc when you say "interactive" then there is a very good chance that will be blocked by at least some email providers.

If this message will be going in house and everyone will use Outlook Express then you have much less to worry about.

I hope this helps.  Let me know what additional info or details you need.

bol

How many people will this go out to?  The reason I ask is Outlook Express isn't going to make a great "bulk" email program.  If this will go to people with various email providers then you might want a custom script or a better program to do this.  Especially if you don't want all of the email addresses to appear on each message.  This is a little bit off topic but I just wanted to make sure the messages got through and you weren't sending everyone's email address with each message.

Let me know if you need more info about this.

bol

We were going to be sending about 1200, but each month, there will probably be more and more recipients as we have more people signing up.  The content of the e-mail is mostly pictures with some text.   I wanted to slice it in Photoshop so that when you clicked on specific places on the image, it would take you to different places in our website.  

The reason for my concern about having the newsletter online is because we don't really have anyway of getting it online for the customer to link to from their e-mail.  Our webpage will not support something like this on its "backpages".  

To answer your "bulk mail" question, we were going to put everyone in the bcc and send it to "undisclosed recipient" so that you couldn't see everyone's e-mail when it is sent.

So, what do i need to do to get the content to work "interactively" in the e-mail message.  I have tried some different things and nothing has worked so far.

Thanks again for your help.

I am not concerned about the sending part of the e-mail.  We have not tried sending it out to all of our subscribers yet.  And, if a few of the people we are sending it to, can't open it or don't get it...it isn't a huge deal.  It is just a promotional thing we are doing for our customers each month.  

My main question is that I need to know how to get the newsletter from Photoshop to the e-mail and make it "clickable" when the customer opens it.  I am not sure how to do the HTML code...assistance with that would be appreciated.

I haven't even gotten to the point of sending the e-mail out yet.  I am still trying to get the image to work.  Please help me with the steps I need to take to get the image to even work before I think about trying to send it.

But your thoughts above are appreciated and I will think about what you said before mailing it out.

bol,

Thank you for your help.  Just wanted to let you know that I was able to get the HTML e-mail to work now.  But I appreciate your input and assistance.  I will let you know if I run into any other problems.
Thanks again.

Your welcome!  I'm glad I could help.  Thanks for the grade, the points and the fun question.

bol