E-Shots embedding images?

[StuartHopkin]

Does anyone have any idea what the best programme is to prepare an email 'e-shot' sort of thing.

What is the correct/best way to embed/include a jpeg image in an email so that it will be viewed correctly at the other end and wont be too large?

Thanks

[kinboshi]

Use notepad to edit the HTML, and then use someone like Campaign Monitor to send the campaign (and monitor opens, clickthroughs, etc.) and manage your subscriber lists.

[Jon MW]

We do lots of that for our clients

Cheap rates


We use dreamweaver to create the html, fireworks to fix/re-size any pictures - which are then put on an ftp page and referred to in the img tag with the url as the src

Like boshi said there are lots of web based email people who you can use to track the campaign after it's sent.

[gatso]

We use dreamweaver to create the html, fireworks to fix/re-size any pictures - which are then put on an ftp page and referred to in the img tag with the url as the src

I was astonished to find out the other day that this is still how it's done and basic tables are still used. this is stuff I was writing in notepad 10 years ago and nothing seems to have moved on

[kinboshi]

Ideally you don't want to be using tables, and using a div-based layout is usually much better.  But yes, it's still pretty much the same as it was 10 years ago - except every email client will block the images from showing by default and you have to be very careful not to get your campaign tagged as 'spam' these days.