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| Thread ID: 143210 | 2016-12-18 03:00:00 | Formatting emails for Gmail etc. | Tony (4941) | Press F1 |
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| 1429991 | 2016-12-18 03:00:00 | The only people who get actual Christmas cards from me these days are wrinklies who don't have email. The rest get a pretty home-made HTML email like this: 7747 I've just discovered that Gmail and I suspect Yahoo and other webmail apps don't respect the formatting. At best I get no background so the recipient sees the images and yellow text on white, or at worst the images are totally separate and the whole thing is a mess. How do I format an email so it looks like the attachment image under all circumstances? |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1429992 | 2016-12-18 20:18:00 | AND you need to consider how every different email client will display the message Many might not show things like that inside an email (security settings) Just add it as a pdf attachment , let your recipients decide if they want to open it or not |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1429993 | 2016-12-18 20:49:00 | AND you need to consider how every different email client will display the message Many might not show things like that inside an email (security settings) I expect you are right. Just add it as a pdf attachment , let your recipients decide if they want to open it or notThat is exactly what I am thinking of doing. It would be nice to have the body of the email looking festive as well though. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1429994 | 2016-12-18 21:19:00 | You could insert festive images (banner size maybe). Pull some from a free stock photo site like SXC. (www.freeimages.com) Or gotta be 1000's available from popular stock sites like big stock photo. (www.bigstockphoto.com/) Some are free - may need link back to credit photographer. Some other free stock sites (https:). However the best vector/illustrative/photo art pic's tend to be from paid stock sites in my experience - since I sell photos on such sites. You could create a template- i.e. permanent pics in Gmail for the body message applying canned responses (in Gmail labs). I tried it - works OK. Instructions here (productforums.google.com) from Gmail help forums. I then tested it by emailing to myself in Gmail... |
kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1429995 | 2016-12-18 22:02:00 | Thanks for the info. I don't usually have a problem finding images, but that looks like a new source. I'll try the Gmail link you gave me. Ideally I'd like to find something that will work everywhere, but I'm not holding my breath. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1429996 | 2016-12-19 00:35:00 | If it were me having this problem I would take a screen save of the HTML version, or any other image or picture for that matter, save it as a .png or .jpg depending on the colours in the picture and then post the image as an attachment and in line in my Gmail addy, I do this quite a lot when sending pictures and images to my daughter for computer graphics I sometimes create for my daughter's small business. You may have to go into your Gmail settings and allow pasting directly or drag and dropping (from your desktop, for instance) into your main Gmail text page, I seem to remember having to do this or else I could only do it by going through the copy an image dialogue on the page source and then clicking the ok to set it into the text which is tedious and long-winded. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1429997 | 2016-12-19 00:41:00 | If it were me having this problem I would take a screen save of the HTML version, or any other image or picture for that matter, save it as a .png or .jpg depending on the colours in the picture and then post the image as an attachment and in line in my Gmail addy, I do this quite a lot when sending pictures and images to my daughter for computer graphics I sometimes create for my daughter's small business. You may have to go into your Gmail settings and allow pasting into your main Gmail text page, I seem to remember having to do this or else I could only do it by going through the copy an image dialogue on the page source and then clicking the ok to set it into the text which is tedious and long-winded.Making an image would work up to a point I think, but what I really am looking for is something that will work automatically for any email address on any browser/client. I have set up an Access db that takes email addresses categorised as "Christmas" from my Outlook data file and generates a customised HTML email. I'd like to be able to continue that, or something like it, i.e. no special treatment for special addresses. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1429998 | 2016-12-19 20:35:00 | Click and Go/Turnkey it seems what you want. I think the Google App Scripts (www.google.com) may help you. I use to embed some of their apps in my websites/blogs. You can code to refer Gmails to Google Drive - examples of useful scripts here. (www.labnol.org). But it seems nothing for Gmail message box...may have to create a script? | kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1429999 | 2016-12-19 23:49:00 | If you're using HTML to make emails, you will have to use tables. It's dirty, but it's literally the only way that works. | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1430000 | 2016-12-20 00:58:00 | If you're using HTML to make emails, you will have to use tables. It's dirty, but it's literally the only way that works.That's what I have been doing - background colours don't seem to work. | Tony (4941) | ||
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