Best way to prepare HTML email

I would like to survey the group here and get some advice on
creating
HTML-formatted email. Most of the time that I produce it, it
is almost by
accident -- some weird cut-and-paste maneuver from an
existing work. But I
am awash with questions:
- Compose it in Dreamweaver or use Outlook?
- Include photos by URL reference or embed them in the email?
- Use CSS formatting, and if so, reference an external .css
file or embed
styles?
- Various DOs and DON'Ts to insure against being trapped in
spam filters.
Perhaps this is better addressed in the Outlook newsgroup,
and indeed, I
have posed it there, as well. Be that as it may, I would be
most grateful
for any and all advice and/or for being pointed to any good
online articles
on the subject.
Rick A.
Pleasanton CA

http://www.anandgraves.com/html-email-guide#unnecessary_htmltags
http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/content/2004/11/11/09.27.00/
> - Compose it in Dreamweaver or use Outlook?
DW.
> - Include photos by URL reference or embed them in the
email?
URL definitely. Links too.
> - Use CSS formatting, and if so, reference an external
.css file or embed
> styles?
Minimal CSS, and all either inline or in a small embedded
stylesheet WITHIN
THE BODY (just below <body>).
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Adobe Community Expert
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"Rick Altman" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:fnlka6$4p7$[email protected]..
>I would like to survey the group here and get some advice
on creating
>HTML-formatted email. Most of the time that I produce it,
it is almost by
>accident -- some weird cut-and-paste maneuver from an
existing work. But I
>am awash with questions:
>
> - Compose it in Dreamweaver or use Outlook?
>
> - Include photos by URL reference or embed them in the
email?
>
> - Use CSS formatting, and if so, reference an external
.css file or embed
> styles?
>
> - Various DOs and DON'Ts to insure against being trapped
in spam filters.
>
>
> Perhaps this is better addressed in the Outlook
newsgroup, and indeed, I
> have posed it there, as well. Be that as it may, I would
be most grateful
> for any and all advice and/or for being pointed to any
good online
> articles on the subject.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Rick A.
> Pleasanton CA
>

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> Thanks, Joe, I will check this out. I do have Acrobat,
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PDF (with graphics)
>>> into an html page?? Preferably something that
doesn't require
>>> purchasing yet another program...
>>>
>>> Unless I'm missing it, playing around with
Acrobat itself doesn't
>>> provide any ready solution. Figured somebody
here may know if it's
>>> even possible or not.
>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
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>> Joe Makowiec
>>
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