Best way to send Christmas cards by email?

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Best way to send Christmas cards by email?

Based on other comments I've seen on these forums I advised my work this week that they should send their Christmas card email by creating it in iWeb and then sending it as an HTML message by choosing "File > Mail Contents of This Page" in Safari.

The problem is the Director just called to say that one of our clients said all he could see was the text.

Any idea what has gone wrong here? And what do people recommend as the best way to send Christmas card emails?

Posted on Dec 17, 2008 7:51 AM

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Answer 1

Old Toad

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Dec 17, 2008 1:41 PM in response to Christiaan

Not every mail client is able to or setup to view HTML content in web pages. JBK's suggestion is a sure fire way to get the content of the card so that any client or platform can view it (unless they have display of image content turned off and they have to download the image file and open with an appropriate application).

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Christiaan Author

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Dec 18, 2008 2:43 PM in response to JBK

We want to avoid image or PDF files as these aren't always shown inline.

Turns out the client was viewing his email on a Blackberry.

We've received a few HTML emails this year ourselves and some of them contain links saying "If you can't read this email click here to view in a web browser" which is quite a good idea.

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Christiaan Author

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Dec 19, 2008 2:03 AM in response to Old Toad

Old Toad wrote:
JBK's suggestion is a sure fire way to get the content of the card so that any client or platform can view it (unless they have display of image content turned off and they have to download the image file and open with an appropriate application).

Well, yes, in other words it's is not a sure fire way.

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Christiaan Author

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Dec 19, 2008 2:06 AM in response to Old Toad

Old Toad wrote:
There are some new Mail layouts, holiday themes, available that might be useful also. You can get them here: http://www.ipresentee.com/iPresentee/iPresentee-_MailStationery.html

Thanks for this. Unfortunately we want to be able to edit the design and Mail Stationary templates are beyond our expertise.

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JBK

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Dec 17, 2008 10:40 AM in response to Christiaan

Hello,
I'm no expert, but what if you keep the creation in Iweb, then "save as a PDF to IPhoto", then send them the Photo from within IPhoto.

I do this a lot for different things.

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Old Toad

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Dec 18, 2008 2:56 PM in response to Christiaan

There are some new Mail layouts, holiday themes, available that might be useful also. You can get them here: http://www.ipresentee.com/iPresentee/iPresentee-_MailStationery.html

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