InDesign to HTML

Hello,
I have the CS5 suite and I'm trying to turn either a inDesign page or pdf page into a HTML page which I can then use for an email shot. Can't for the life of me see how I can do this?
Can anyone help?
Much appreciated.
annika

hey Bob- question for you- I do some web design- not a pro of course but i have some decent experience and i primarily use dreamweaver- now i have done some business with a print shop and they are asking me to take small 1-3 page designs created in InDesign or Photoshop because they are a print shop and thats all they use-- and convert them into html and publish them as websites and i would greatly appreciate some input on this because i cannot find answers (that work) anywhere on how to do this correctly and get the job done- thx much!!!!

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