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I need to do HTML emails, with inline-HTML and inline-images as multipart with an alternative text-only version. Seems there are hardly any standalone tools out there - only hosted services. Any recommendation for a Windows standalone tool?
Any recommendation for a Windows standalone tool?
I've been using FrontPage for these requirements and it works like a charm.
Just remember, you'll want to embed and hard code everything.
So I need to have a multipart mail, where:
Part 1: HTML
Part 2: Image #1
Part 3: Image #2
etc..
And inside the HTML the image-parts need to be referenced.
1. Build the page in FrontPage.
2. Browse to the page in IE and do a Save As and select Web Page Complete from the dropdown menu (it is the default selection). Be sure to name the file appropriately before saving so all links (for supporting files) are kept intact. If you change the file names afterwards, things will break (although easily fixed).
You'll end up with one .htm file and one folder with supporting images.
3. Highlight the file and the folder, right click, send to zip and off you go.
Then, I take the HTML version viewable at the browser and copy, insert into a text file, clean a few things up and off it goes.
I've been involved with email campaigns these past few weeks working with new providers and they are appreciating the error free files. We send them the zip and then we send links to all the primary files; the html version, the text version and the zip file.
Be sure to embed all CSS in the <head>. Hard code all links, don't leave this to chance or a base URI. I've found that you can use all the styling you want as long as you embed the supporting CSS. Same goes for JS but be careful due to security settings.
