Outlook 2007 - Email with frame images not displaying...

[Ubentobox]

Problem: Unable to display any pictures or even the notorious "x" box.

Description: I am trying to create a dynamic email "body" for announcements from the IT department to the rest of the company. I first made the mistake of going HTML5 and Div, however learned after a little bit email clients are down right retarded.

So after adjusting it to table format and inline style tags, I get the basic function of what I am going for, however the images are completely not present whether erroneous or not. The table functions in a 3 row setup with the <td> background settings for the images. I have tried both hosted and attaching the images to the email but no luck.

I have read about 13 tutorials so far having ALL to do with render the desired product, copy/paste into email under Rich Text Formatting.

Now while pasting it into RTF, it works on Gmail however not on Outlook. I tried sending the Gmail success to outlook and it displays as if no images were ever present, no indicators or nothing.

So the question is, what do I have to do to get this to work?

The link below is to the code pastebin. I want to keep this background image dynamic because its "too difficult" for some people who edit it to expand it to contain the body of their text.

http://pastebin.com/tSadZNWt

 

[kjv1611]

It may be that pasting is not what you need to do at all. I know that historically, Outlook has had issues when you manually paste images rather than inserting them. So check into inserting rather than pasting. When you paste images, it'll often work well for some, but not others... as far as different images/formats and as well as different recipients..

 

[Ubentobox]

I will try and find a good tutorial that makes a clear enough distinction between the two and see what I can come up with and post the results. Thanks

 

[Ubentobox]

Didn't even think about it but the insert method I have indeed tried to complete but with no success. Even tried the Insert as RTF option via the drop down available at the file selection gump.

 

[kjv1611]

Hmm.... well, being that the images are likely not directly embedded, but are stored in another folder - assuming you're going at this more from a web design than email perspective - it's just not going to work. The reason will be that when you send the email, the folder containing the images will not go... necessarily - or likely many of the email clients will not receive it when offered, b/c it would be seen as a security threat.

What about just making one big jpeg image or pdf file? Sure, they can be security threats each themselves, but at least you'd have a better chance of getting through.