Help! InDesign file to HTML for email

Yes, I know, I do everything with InDesign and have successfully for years. When I had to design an email blast, I designed it in InDesign, and sent it to a company to convert it to html for me, and then they sent it out with our list as a blast.
My new company, does everything internally, and wants me to do a email blast, and they're real cheap on sending anything to a vendor for help. I don't work at all in DreamWeaver, and know nothing about html.
Is there any 'easy' way to take a document in Indesign and get it into html, or something suitable for an email blast????? Or save it in such a way, it can be brought into Constant Contact????? Arghhhhhhh......

The best advice I can give you is to use Constant Contacts free HTML email templates: http://www.constantcontact.com/email-marketing/html-email-templates/index.jsp
These templates are easy enough to edit and have a foundation already set for email clients. Typically they will be constructed in tables with inline CSS. Constant Contact also have basic templates without any design: http://www.constantcontact.com/email-marketing/html-email-templates/basic.jsp
Using InDesign for this job is really not the way to go. In fact, using any graphic application other than an HTML editor is only going to give you a headache. If this is going to become a regular thing in your job, start learning HTML and make your life that little bit easier. There are a vast amount of resources available online to help you get the basics down.
@2. timm.hughes, don't even go down that road!

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