Images not displaying in email templates

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Joined: Feb 2006

Hi There,

I have a number of HTML email templates that are automatically sent from my site ozprivatesale.com.au

The problem is that the image at the top does not display when you view the email in outlook or the like.

The image displays fine however in a browser.

Below is the code of one of the templates:

Welcome

Dear #USERNAME#,
Thank you for joining Australia’s fastest growing ‘private sale’ community, where you will get the information and support that you will need to buy and sell privately.
Whether you are buying, selling, renting or sharing www.ozprivatesale.com.au is the place to be if you want to take control and do it yourself without agents….!
If you know anyone who is wanting to sell, buy or rent privately remember to tell them about us!
If you need to contact us please do not reply to this email, please email us at [email protected]
Regards,

Ryan Gifford
Customer Services Manager
Ozprivatesale Pty Ltd
[email protected]
www.ozprivatesale.com.au

Disclaimer:
This Email is intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and/or exempt from disclosure at law. You must not edit this Email or any attachments without our express consent. Ozprivatesale Pty Ltd is not liable for any failed, corrupted or incomplete transmission of this Email or any attachments or for any viruses contained in them. By opening any attachments, you accept full responsibility for the consequences. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, reliance upon or copying of this Email or any attachments is strictly prohibited, and you must immediately erase them permanently from your system, notify us by phone (at our cost) and destroy any hard copies. Thank you.

I am pretty new to this, so any help would be appreciated.

Cheers,
Ryan
www.ozprivatesale.com.au http://www.ozprivatesale.com.au

- save money - sell privately -
www.ozprivatesale.com.au

DaveyBoy's picture

They have: 453 posts

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did you try removing the ../ from :

They have: 2 posts

Joined: Feb 2006

Yeah tried that, didn't make any difference???

DaveyBoy's picture

They have: 453 posts

Joined: Feb 2003

the only other thing i can think of is changing the extension from jpg to JPG, if the file was uploaded with the extension in uppercase, this sometimes helps.

Or maybe images are turned off in Outlook?

timjpriebe's picture

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Is the image file actually being sent out with the email? If not, that JPG URL will need to be absolute, pointing directly to its location on the web:

If it is being sent with the email, then it should just be

I would try both of those, and see how it works. I recently began sending out HTML formatted email, not attaching the image, and used the first option.

robfenn's picture

He has: 471 posts

Joined: Jun 2005

As Tim has spotted you need to give image sources their full URL. You should also have an external stylesheet linked in the same way. Otherwise e-mail clients like Hotmail will bugger up your formatting. I have made all of these mistake and learnt the hard way!

If you don't know how to externally link style sheets, here is my latest e-newsletter you can grab the code from:

http://www.sixthsense-esp.co.uk/pulse/feb06/index.htm

I can't see a 'view as webpage' link on yours, you should have one for people who only view e-mails as text.

Cheers,

-Rob

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