Creating your own HTML greeting cards
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Design the greeting card in your favorite web page editor. Use pictures from your home page, snatch the Santas from this site, or search the web for other royalty-free seasonal fare. |
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Convert any relative URLs in your message to full Internet addresses. Each URL must point to a specific file on the Internet. For example, the address for the santa picture in the top right corner of this web page is defined as follows:
This works just fine from our webserver, but for your greeting card to display this picture it must instead be defined like this:
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Copy your HTML code into the eMerge letter window. eMerge looks for the tag <html> at the very beginning of your message and sends what it finds afterwards as HTML-encoded e-mail. |
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Enclose any variables you want in angle brackets as usual. You may, however, need to enter these by hand in eMerge, since most HTML editors convert these brackets to HTML codes. |
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