1. Upload Photo. First upload the picture that you want to paste to a web server. If you maintain your own server, that would be a good location. If you don't, then use any number of free photo sharing web sites such as:
... upload the photo and copy the actual image URL (click here for an explanation of how to get an image URL from the Flickr photo sharing web site).
e.g. The Email-Geni.us logo is stored on Flickr.com, and can be viewed at the following URL:
2. Insert Photo into Email-Geni.us email. On an email draft in Email-Ge
ni.us, click on the "Insert/Edit Image" icon on the FCKeditor toolbar (see illustration on right) - a pop-up dialog box will be displayed called "Image Properties". In this "Image Properties" dialog box, enter the URL of the photo and some alternative text - (see the example in the illustration below, which will insert an image of the above Email-Geni.us logo).
You mean I cannot just simply attach a photo to the email?
That is correct. Actually you do not want to. Really, you don't want to. Why not?
ni.us, click on the "Insert/Edit Image" icon on the FCKeditor toolbar (see illustration on right) - a pop-up dialog box will be displayed called "Image Properties". In this "Image Properties" dialog box, enter the URL of the photo and some alternative text - (see the example in the illustration below, which will insert an image of the above Email-Geni.us logo).You mean I cannot just simply attach a photo to the email?
That is correct. Actually you do not want to. Really, you don't want to. Why not?
- A large number of email servers will block email that has attachments, especially if that email is in HTML format, and especially if that email server is receiving multiple emails the same for different recipients.
- Attachments can also be blocked if they contain viruses - nothing worse than sending out a large number of emails infected with a virus-plagued attachment. It happens!
- Photos are extremely large files compared to the actual text that comprises the email itself. This means that a bulk email with even some modest 'average' photos attached can amount to a huge chunk of bandwidth, especially once multiplied by several thousand or more emails. That bandwidth does not just cost your provider (and therefore you) money, but it slows down the publishing of a large bulk email.
- The fact that you can embed an image from an external server actually gives you the capability of monitoring analytics for your email, analyzing the number of people that have downloaded that image (e.g. using Google Analytics or equivalent).
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