Hi,

 

A client has asked for an e-card. I'm going to subscribe a third party company who specialise in this because it gives a lot of info about click throughs etc and does all the spam filtering tests.

 

However, at this stage I've produced a first draft which I know can be viewed in email clients (as I said I have done this before) but when I do a test send the html gets through but not the required images.

 

I'm using Outlook. Insert file as text. I'm sure this worked in the past!!?

 

Any ideas anyone.

 

Thanks,

 

Jo

I think you have to give the images absolute urls like http://www.domain.com/image.jpg not relative urls. Is that what you are doing?

 

This is page 3 of a tutorial which deals with images:-

http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/code-html-email-newsletters/3

I had problems with this today! I've tried using absolute urls but the images still dont show up! Tried Googling but havent found any answers.

You're right.

 

I realised as I was cycling home last night.

 

Doh!

 

Interesting tutorial though - for google mail particularly. I'll read through that too.

 

Thanks very much.

 

Jo

The two ways of having images in emails are image linking or image embedding.

 

Embedding adds to the filesize of the document and can get your email marked automatically as spam, the plus side to using it is that the images will always show by default.

 

Image linking gives you a faster downloading more streamlined html email however people have to 'show images' in most email clients.

 

There are trade off's to using both.