html email (again)

[masque]

I know its been discussed before, I've read it, but I'm still searching for a solution.
One very easy way, (which immediatly appealed to me), was to simply enter the url of a page into outlook express to send a page as an email. Wonderful, just what I needed to do. Attaching the url of a random sample page from the BBC web site seemed to work ok in that I sent an email with some news and current affairs on it to myself and it came through ok. I was very upbeat and set about creating a page using xtreme, uploading it and repeated the operation with Express inserting the pages url. It seemed ok so I sent the email to myself and the result was rather less than I'd hoped in that the contents of the page were jumbled up and much of it disapearing off the left hand side of the page.
Can anyone offer a theory as to why the Xtreme page would not send as the sample BBC page had done?
Derek

[steve.ledger]

I can't find the thread where I discussed a bit of a work-around of copying (Ctrl+A) the site from Google Chrome and pasting into Gmail, then sending from Gmail to your recipient.
This preserved absolute path links (from the browsers pov), especially the style sheet (.css) which natively is a relative links.
It has to be a Chrome to Gmail thing though, doesn't work with a PC based email client.
It was all a bit convoluted and only succeeded because I wanted to find a way. But in reality I'd never use it seriously (I use FOXMAIL which has it's own template editor for HTML emails)
Not having the absolute path (URL) to the style sheet will cause the page formatting will fall apart, which is likely what's happening in your Xtreme-to-OE experiment.

[Egg Bramhill]

Perhaps you could send me a test email Derek.
e.bramhillATbtopenworld.com

[masque]

Perhaps you could send me a test email Derek.
e.bramhillATbtopenworld.com

Thanks for the help egg. Email sent aong with jpeg of how it should look. Its only a mock up of a page at this stage.
Let me know your findngs when you are ready.
Derek

[dogbertbh]

I use this all the time at work. My end solution was to simply create the email as I wanted it, slice the images and FTP them to a site.

From there I create the source code <img src="http://www.mysite.com/images/myimage.jpg>

Once this is done I send it out from my mail client.

[jimhanus]

dogbertbh,
Could you explain with a little more detail what you had done to make this work? I could use it.

One thing I had tried was to make the design the way I wanted it, then open it in FrontPage to edit the html. I did a find/replace to replace the index_htm_files path with a http://www.mydomain.com/index_htm_files path (to where I had stored it on the server). It worked in some systems and not others. My Yahoo account saw it OK, my wife's didn't. My Outlook saw it OK and my wife's Outlook worked as well. My neighbors Gmail didn't work. Just wondering what I might be missing where it works on some systems and not others. I checked the path to the stylesheet and it is correct.

Jim