e-shot - what, how, help!

[fRostiE]

Hey,

I've been asked to produce an e-shot for various reasons

I've never made one before... my understanding is images and HTML which is sent via email, am i right?

does anyone have any material or tutorial information regarding how to 'make your first e-shot'?

Am i best just coding a 600x600 image rich HTML page?... i receive plenty of them, I've just no idea how to go about making one!

 

[fRostiE]

thanks,

i've just snatched a Monster.co.uk mailshot for a job advert - which gives you an idea why i've been asked to create a mailshot in the first place... currently picking it to bits and it's hugely tables orientated - not the way i would usually code a webpage at all!

Thanks for the information

 

[fRostiE]

What is the best method to send these things?

I've got the page badly written in tables and whatnot, works in Firefox and IE.

Using IE i do File > Send > Page by email... - is this correct? should i be doing it another way?

When i do that to my work address (Outlook 2003) - it works fine.
When i send it to my gmail account - it works fine.
When i send it to a hotmail address - there is a tiny gap between some of the images (2-3px)

When i forward the email from my gmail to my work address... some images do not appear as they were in the origional email.

When i go to forward the email from my work address to my gmail - in the preview window - the images have already gone funny (same as above)

unfortunately due to proxy at work i cant upload screenshots

Is this just par for the course with these things? I'm not sure how best to send the the e-shot to the people who've asked me to produce it, for fear that it wont appear correctly in their email client

 

[fRostiE]

do you think it would be acceptable to link a prospective employer to a webpage which had the HTML Table and images linked in rather than actually emailing them the e-shot?

Failing that i guess i just have to risk it and hope it renders reasonably on their machine?!!