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.