Creating an Email Newsletter with Outlook Express® The basic idea behind creating an email newsletter is that you are sending an HTML page. Therefore, there are two ways to do this. The first is to use the built in HTML creator with Outlook Express® which takes no web-building or HTML knowledge and the other is to create an HTML page externally and send it using Outlook Express®. Using the built in HTML creator Open up Outlook Express® Click on "Create Mail" to open up a new email message Check that 'View/Toolbars/Formatting Bar' is ticked You can then insert text and pictures and also format the way that you text looks in a similar way to how you would if you were using Microsoft Word® Always check the email to make sure that it looks as you want it to look by sending it to yourself. If you are going to be sending it to a web-based email account (eg. Hotmail or Yahoo) then it is worth testing it by sending it to an account that you have created there Although this is probably the easiest way to send a formatted email newsletter, you will be able to take control of more features and have greater control on how the newsletter looks if you do know HTML and are able to take advantage of the next method Using Outlook Express® with an external HTML Page Open up Outlook Express® Click on "Create Mail" to open up a new email message Ensure that the bottom tabs are present by clicking on 'View/Source Edit' and making sure that it is ticked Create your HTML page that you want to send externally Copy (ctrl + c) your whole HTML page including any headers Returning to Outlook Express®, click on the 'Source' tab at the bottom of the email message window Select all (ctrl + a) and hit delete. You should now have a blank page Paste (ctrl + v) all of you html content Click on the 'edit' and 'preview' tabs to ensure that what you think you have created looks like you think that it should look Always check the email to make sure that it looks as you want it to look by sending it to yourself. If you are going to be sending it to a web-based email account (eg. Hotmail or Yahoo) then it is worth testing it by sending it to an account that you have created there. Remember to copy (ctrl + v) your html code so that you can reuse it when you really want to send out the email Some words of warning: When creating links to images or web-based pages remember to include the full URL to that image or page Avoid using CSS or anything too complicated as it may not show up on certain email clients Remember that different colors may show up differently on different email clients