HTML Email Problem!?!?!?

uqwebdesign · #1 (**permalink**) Feb 16th, 2007, 23:13

I'm trying to send an html email and have no idea where I'm going wrong. I've tried using outlook (with email format set as html) and hotmail to send it but am not having any joy - the code just shows up

I've tried with having all the <html> tage around everything as if it's a webpage, will not work, even if I just have a single link or heading it still won't work

any advice please? I'm using Outlook 2003 if that makes any difference, but as I said it won't work with hotmail either

BGarner · #2 (**permalink**) Feb 17th, 2007, 00:00

Google is your very best friend...

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/cod...il-newsletters

so go give Google a big hug!

BUT! I would suggest really rethinking why you are writing this email in html. see...

http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html..._is_evil.shtml

Hope this helped!

uqwebdesign · #3 (**permalink**) Feb 17th, 2007, 07:40

Thanks, but it's the email not displaying in html that seems to be the problem, just the code shows up and not in html as it should, that's why I'm so confused.

If anyone has got a html email example of exactly what I should put into the "new message" screen it would help alot, but as I said, not even a link or h1 are showing up as html for me

I'm against html email too, but sadly a client wants it

moojoo · #4 (**permalink**) Feb 17th, 2007, 22:39

How did you build it? e-mail clients have crappy css support etc.

uqwebdesign · #5 (**permalink**) Feb 18th, 2007, 10:25

I'm trying to just paste the code into outlook as a new message eg:

<html>
<head>
<title>hello</title>
<body>
<h1>Hello</h1>
</body>
</html>

That's exactly what I'm posting into the new message window, and I'm sure it worked fine for me before with the message format set to html, but as I said it's just the code that's being sent. Am I doing something wrong?

moojoo · #6 (**permalink**) Feb 18th, 2007, 14:44

Nope, you need to use some sort of mailer, while in Outlook you can do send as HTML blah blah I wouldn't rely on it, you also need to test in hotmail, gmail, yahoo! etc..

uqwebdesign · #7 (**permalink**) Feb 18th, 2007, 16:19

This is proper annoying me now, I've even downloaded a html email template so I know the code must be right, but even if I send by hotmail and open in hotmail or outlook, it still opens as text and not html

((((

What am I doing wrong??

moojoo · #8 (**permalink**) Feb 19th, 2007, 11:19

You need an HML e-mailer like dreammail or something. Probably some free php ones etc too. Also any images need to be hosted on a server and linked that way etc.

scoobs · #9 (**permalink**) Feb 20th, 2007, 16:13

You need to use a program especially set up for broadcasting HTML email.

As well as sending the email you also need to think about how you handle things like unsubscribe requests and bounces etc etc.

If you want some more help send me a PM or email phil_monk2004@yahoo.co.uk and I would be more than happy to help.

I do it everyday - its my job !!!!!

uqwebdesign · #10 (**permalink**) Feb 21st, 2007, 12:25

Thanks very much for the help guys, I used Dreammail - thanks for recommending it - and I think it's sorted me out now, it was just a simple email newsletter so I'll know what to do in the future

Thanks again

scoobs · #11 (**permalink**) Feb 21st, 2007, 12:34

Glad you got it sorted

moojoo · #12 (**permalink**) Feb 21st, 2007, 15:26

BTW you may want to do some reading as M$ has reverted Outlook in Office 2007 to the Word Engine and stripped out the IE engine thus limiting it to basic HTML and CSS lvl 1 support. Yay MS!

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338201.aspx

uqwebdesign · #13 (**permalink**) Feb 22nd, 2007, 07:12

Yeah I did know that, thanks MS lol.

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