e-Flyer - HTML text and graphics?

[mwenz]

If you ask for advice, feel free to disregard legitimate advice you do not feel is pertinent. It wasn't only "legal" advice, it was practical advice.

So go buy a real web development application. Or download and install the now no-longer being developed Expression Web. EW is as fully-featured as DW of a couple versions back. Your images will need to be hosted on your own domain (or elsewhere on the web) for HTML emails to work. No embedding. Or download the trial of the application I mentioned and give it a try. Make the assets in PS and or whatever Xara application you have.

Here's some more advice you will not like: This isn't going to work like you think it is going to in your recipients' email client if you try to embed the images. It isn't straight-forward.

Good luck.

[Rob-Xar]

Indeed, like mike says, the code exported from Xara isn't suitable for use in emails. You will need to use another program. By all means, use the graphics from Xara for your email campaign but you couldn't produce HTML pages suitable for emails from it. The standards are very different between email and web HTML (email being far more backwards).

[sadicus]

This isn't going to work like you think it is going to in your recipients' email client if you try to embed the images. It isn't straight-forward.

so very true. So far Xara + Photoshop has been a good combo, not too much code editing needed to reassemble the images.

Thanks to all, for the advice.

[pixel dog]

Odd that it wouldn't do backward compatible.

I've found when you start doing web design work for clients they are soon looking for Email Marketing pieces of the same quality.
Some use Chimp Mail where you can import HTML, but I can't get Xara to Save As a usable html file.

Sure you can use Photoshop as a Image Map - but that's a work around (not a good one) - not a solution. Plus it really sucks doing a weekly HTML Newsletter every week that way.
Xara is a great program for websites, but it's versatility fall flat when trying to do other HTML Documents used by E mailers and loses a potential large market share.