Illust. 10 SfW Command screws up HTML Doc! 1

[KDHWhaddup]

I am creating an e-newsletter (by the way…I am a beginner here, so bear with me!) in Illustrator 10 (Win), well, I have some images that I have placed…one is a photo; well I want that photo to link to the bio of that person on our website. So, I did the whole attributes thing, tested through the browser button, everything was fine. I have a few other links that go to e.mail, home page on website…did the very same thing; worked just fine. Well, when I do the SfW/HTML and Images and I open the HTML version, the links are moved around. Not the images, but the links. You know where you hover your mouse over a link and the hand cursor appears. It does that, but in totally random places. Am I not saving properly?

So, I tried to create slices (in a new document) and when I SfW it divides the entire page up into little pieces, it will also occasionally not show any of the graphics --when sent as an attachment-- (right click, show picture kind of thing).

And...on top of that...I want to imbed this newsletter in the body of an e.mail!!!

ANY POINTERS?!?! I am going to pull my hair out!!

THANKS!! -Kristin

 

[itchybug]

Kristin:

In addition to my email, here's some more info:

1. When you try to embed or otherwise use html in emails, be prepared for a lot of problems occurring on the recipient side. Email progs hack up html and css something awful. I'd suggest staying away from it.

2. If you do decide to use html in an email, make sure to put all images on a server and use absolute links to point to them. The html you sent me did not include any of the images because the img src tags referred to relative url's presumably on your computer...

HTH

Bert

http://www.itchybug.com

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http://www.amenpackaging.com

 

[KDHWhaddup]

I was kind of thinking that was going to be the case with the HTML in e.mails. So, the images on the server huh? Wish I knew how to do that too! I'M A NEWBIE! Although, I did this stuff in college..it's been a while. So, absolute links too...are those easy to do? And, is there a way for me to modify the img src tags? YOU ARE GREAT BY THE WAY!!

Thank you,
Kristin

 

[itchybug]

Kristin:

Absolute url links: When you have an html file on a server, and the images are located in the same directory, you can use a relative url, like <img src="image.jpg" yada yada>. If the image or whatever you're referring to is elsewhere (or even if it is in the same directory you can still do this) you can use an absolute url: <img src="

http://www.servername.com/directory/image.jpg"

yada yada> in other words you spell out the whole path to the object.

To modify the img src tags, you could open the html source file with an editor and manually change the info, then save and upload the new file.

To upload images to a server, you first need a server (If your company has server space available, use that) or server-space provided by a web hosting company. There are many of them out there, I use one called ValueWeb, I think I'm paying like $20 a month for a GB of server space. Then, use an FTP program to upload.

I'm thinking this is probably getting way overwhelming by now. Maybe go through this tutorial for some basic html, and see if any of it starts to make sense:

http://www.htmlgoodies.com/primers/basics.html

HTH

Bert

http://www.itchybug.com

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http://www.amenpackaging.com

 

[itchybug]

Kristin:

Did you get my email? I put the page up on my server. It's nearly completely done.

Bert

http://www.itchybug.com

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http://www.amenpackaging.com