E-Mailing a Web Page

[DaveMc]

I have a site whose pages were all originally created in FrontPage 2000. When
I would open a page for editing, then click File->Send, I could e-mail that
page. Now I'm using FP 2003 and when I click File->Send, it tries to e-mail
the page as an attachment.

Is this by design, or is there a setting I can tweak to enable e-mailing a
page directly instead of as an attachment?

Thanks!

 

[Andrew Murray]

You'd have to *build the page* in your mail reader - as a "New Message".
Or, make the page in Frontpage; then copy and paste the whole thing in to
Outlook or whatever.

Make sure you're using absolute URL's to your links, images (i.e the full
url such as "http://www.yoursite.com/images/image1.jpg") and that they
reside on a web server - they are not embebbed in the message. Essentially
you're viewing a web page through the mail reader.

It would be easier to make the page, publish it, then send a *link* to the
site in the email. Not everyone has HTML capable email clients, or else
they read email with HTML switched off.

 

[jack.murphy]

DaveMc,

I'm not familiar with FrontPage, but I can offer you an alternative
solution once your web page is deployed on the web.

If you are emailing a web page to one person, you can use www.jkn.com
(JumpKNowledge), the world's first-and-only web-based "web page
emailer" to email your web page.

If you want to email an HTML newsletter to many people, you can use
www.Deliverent.com to publish it to them. Deliverent is free for 2,500
emails a month or less.

Full disclosure: I work for the company.

If you have any questions, let me know.

Jack

 

[Clark]

Hmmm. I tried emailing the homepage of my website to myself as a test.
None of the graphics came through so the result was not what I would
want someone to be emailing to represent my site

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Did you try email it from your live/remote web site?

FYI: Images are not embedded in a web page, they are linked, so the link must point to images that
on a public available web site.

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[Andrew Murray]

And many mail readers can now block images in an email from
downloading/displaying e.g. Outlook 2003 - this is user-dependent - based on
their security settings etc, which is why HTML emails are not the best
solution.

 

[Tom [Pepper] Willett]

OE Express with WinXP SP2 also does this. I believe it is enabled by
default, can't remember.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Yes, it is enabled by default to block image downloads.

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OE Express with WinXP SP2 also does this. I believe it is enabled by default, can't remember.
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And many mail readers can now block images in an email from downloading/displaying e.g. Outlook
2003 - this is user-dependent - based on their security settings etc, which is why HTML emails
are not the best solution.

 

[Clark]

Yes, it was from the "live" site

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

When you emailed the page from your live/remote site where you using IE instead of FP?

You must also have use Absolute URL to all images for this to work from the live/remote site

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