Thursday, January 22, 2004

Creating Emails with Embedded Photographs

Ever want to send out one of those fancy emails with photos embedded in the text?

Well here's how:

1. Use a simple text editor to create an HTML page. First put in the minimal page tags.

  <HTML><BODY>
  </BODY></HEAD>

2. Insert your paragraphs of text in between the above tags using a paragraph tag to frame your text.

  <P>The text of your paragraph</P>

3. Place your photographs somewhere on the Internet where they can be referenced by a URL.

4. Insert a reference in between your paragraphs to where you wish the photograph to appear.

  <IMG SRC="url of your photograph" border=0>

5. Use the align attribute to place your photograph to the right or left of the following text and have the text wrap around the picture.

  <IMG SRC="url of your photograph" border=0 align="right" >

6. Name the file filename.html and attach it to your email.

7. Send a copy to yourself to make sure you're happy, then send to the world.

Most email viewers will automatically display attached HTML text.

My Favourite Free Applications

Digital Photography

Here are some awesome, free applications that I use to work on my web site.

Easy Thumbnails - Lots of bulk image reduction and renaming capability.
Web Album Generator - A handy pre-processor for creating web photo journals.
ConTEXT - A very useful programmers and text editor.
Huey - An awesome HTML color picker and generator.
Yahoo Sitebuilder - A full blown WYSIWYG Web Development Tool.

Other Free Utilities

CDex - CD Ripper and MP3 creation.
AVG Anti Virus - Virus scanning software.
FreeMind - Awesome java based mind mapping software.

Monday, January 19, 2004

Welcome!

It's time to enter the next wave of Internet communication. Blogging is all the rage, and everyone in the world would naturally want to know what everyone else is thinking. Yikes!