Email Advert Design

[bunter001]

I've been asked to do an email advert for a customer. If i designed it in Photoshop CS and used the save for web feature would all browsers be able to view the advert. This might sound dumb but i'm very new to this. I have got Dreamweaver and Flash on my system but i've not much of a clue how to use them properly. Any help would be appreciated

[greyghost]

I would think so - you're just putting the ad, jpg, into the email?
I've done these before, I'm on FF but jpgs. are usually pretty easy in any browser. The hard part comes in with gmail or some other email program that doesn't like viewing attatched photos as HTML. Gmail is fine if it is embedded into the email, but with some extensions I have noticed (jpg is fine) it doesn't care to "view as HTML."

[bunter001]

Thanks for that! Just as a matter of interest what is GMail ne way?

[greyghost]

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[Ned]

Bunter: You can always design email advertisements as a big .jpg image, and you shouldn't have many problems with people viewing it, but you are best to design the email as a webpage with HTML. You should have a text and html version of the email (most mass-mailer programs will allow for this), and you should maintain as much editable text in your webpage email as possible, as well as live links if necessary.

Of course, there's nothing WRONG with doing the email as a .jpg image, but there are better ways...

[AlexNJ210]

i have gmail. sending emails with attachments is a snap and you can send almost any filetype. Everything is well organized and user friendly. By the way, the memory is always increasing everyday, they even have this little ticker on the sign-on page that shows you how its progressing. Pretty cool.