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lokki
02-20-2007, 08:42 AM
:) Hello lovely helpful people!
I am trying to create an HTML email using Hotmail…Is this possible?
I have created a page in Dreamweaver, it is very simple, just one image that you click on to be directed to my website.
I have never tried this before. I simply copied the code from Dreamweaver into a blank Hotmail email and nothing appears. I have noted the HTML code below…thanks!!!
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>
<body>
<a href="http://www.richardlockportfolio.co.uk/"><img src="http://www.richardlockportfolio.co.uk/classified.jpg" width="636" height="643" border="0" /></a>
</body>
</html>
ecsyle
02-21-2007, 12:22 AM
I dont think it's possible. Have you checked the Hotmail support and faqs?
lokki
02-21-2007, 07:46 AM
i sent them an email.. no reply yet.
i did find a website listin g hotmail as one of the accounts that you cancreate an html email in but i guess they were talking crap! lol
Sonic_Nerdish
02-21-2007, 05:32 PM
Yes you can. I use hotmail. While learning HTML I sent some simple html emails to my wife. I emailed them from my hotmail account to my hotmail account to see if it worked. I'm still a total amateur, but I think you are missing a tag in the beginning.
<html> should be first.
Update:
I just emailed your html to myself and saw code. When I put the <html> tag first and emailed it I saw a piece of a classified newspaper page with a design job circled.
morea
02-21-2007, 05:33 PM
don't know if this will help you any:
How to send an HTML email (http://www.graphicdesignforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=155)
joshil3
02-25-2007, 08:58 PM
Hi Lokki! I think I may have figured this out. I was having the same problem as you when I put in the code you provided. What you need to do is make sure you add that <html> tag at the beginning.
Next, in the hotmail new message page, go to the "Tools" menu between the Attach and Cancel buttons. In that menu, turn the Rich Text Editor off. Say OK to the warning. That should let you enter your html properly. After doing that I saw the ad when I sent it to myself instead of the code.
Hope that helps!
Gee, that's dumb. "Turn rich text editor off". How are people supposed to know this!? Boy, I'm glad I don't use hotmail...
Thank you for teaching us how to do that though, Josh!!
joshil3
02-25-2007, 10:00 PM
No problem, Ned! I've spent about a decade on the same email account there and still didn't know that until I googled it today. Never tried an html email either though. I really should get a different email account. :)