Introduction
HTML email is the use of HTML elements in your email to add the formatting and design that does not offer plain text. These are some graphical email clients compatible with email HTML and some are default to this format. Most clients also use a GUI editor to create the HTML emails and rendering engine to show received emails. It lets sender to add quotations, bulleted lists, headings, superscripts, subscripts and emphasized text in order to improve the message readability. With email HTML, you can create and send not only text message but also amazing graphics. It contains the appearance just like a web page. If you do not know about how to create email HTML then this article will help you out. Below are quite easy steps to create a simple email HTML.
Step 1
• First of all, you will need to create new directory on your site that is http://www.ihost-websites.com/htmlmail. “/htmlmail is new directory for all files containing the HTML emails. These files should contain all HTML based pages and graphics that you want to use in mail.
Step 2
• Open any HTML editor for creating your email HTML. Create new page in HTML editors and save it inside the new directory that you have created recently.
• Try to create a design as simple as possible because receiver will see email HTML in their own email app and not in the web browser. You cannot control the window of receiver to view your email HTML document.
Step 3
• Create images, fancy fonts, icons and other graphics and save on web server to show in receiver’s email app.
• It is recommended to use absolute URLS for your links and graphics that you will create in HTML email. As the recipients will go to different locations, so you should use absolute paths to make sure that the images display properly and links work in recipients email software.
Step 4
• It is good idea to first finish with your designing of images with URLs and once you have completed images design then change the relative URLs into the absolute URLs for the images in your email.
Step 5
• Now it’s time to upload your email HTML folder that contains your HTML web pages and images to your web server.
Tips
• After uploading, you can send this email HTML document to your recipient. Open outlook express and navigate to create mail. Click on “insert” option and then “text from file”. Browse your designed HTML document and then send it to yourself to test before sending to recipients list.
Sources and Citations
If you want to send your created HTML document to your friends or colleagues who use the different email applications to open and send HTML documents, you have to make sure that most of your email HTML receivers can read it on their computers. Check your email that you have sent to yourself recently. If it is fine then you can send it to other people. You can send both email HTML and text based email if you are not sure that receiver can read it on their computer or not.
