How to Design Email Stationary
If you're ready to dress up your email messages, try designing your own email stationery. Designing your own makes it customizable, and best of all, original. Although email stationery is built in HTML (hypertext markup language), there's no need to worry if you don't have HTML knowledge. If your email program allows you to create your own stationery, you can use the program to design one. To save time, you can create or find the background image you want to use beforehand.
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Instructions
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Outlook Express
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Select “Tools” and “Options” from the main toolbar. Then click on the “Compose” button.
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Select “Create New” from the “Stationery” section of the “Options” dialog box.
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Follow the Stationery Setup Wizard by clicking on “Next.”
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Select “Picture” to add an image to your stationery. Click on “Browse” to retrieve the image file and insert it. You can choose to stretch the image across your page or on a particular side of your stationery by clicking on the position and tile options.
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Select “Color” to choose a background color for your email signature. Then select the color you want to use from the drop-down.
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Click “Next” to choose the font and style you want to use with the stationery. Click “Next” to specify your margins. Click “Next” and name your stationery. Then click on “Finish.”
Microsoft Outlook
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Select "Tools" and "Options" from the mail screen. Choose the "Mail Format" tab in the "Options" dialog box.
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Select "HTML" under "Message format." Then click on "Stationery Picker..." in the "Stationery and Fonts" section. The "Stationery Picker" dialog box will open.
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Click on "New" to create your own stationery. Enter a name for your stationery, then select "Start with a blank stationery" and click on "Next."
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Choose to insert a background image or color. To use a background image, select "Picture." Then click the "Browse" button to find the image file you want to use and press "Select." The image will be stretched across your page on the stationery.
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Click the "Color" option to use a background color instead. Then pick a color from the “Color” drop-down list and press "OK."
Starting from Scratch
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Open a new document in a text editor.
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Add the following HTML code to the page to add a specific background color to your stationery. Then replace “yellow” with the actual color you want to use.
<html>
<body bgcolor="yellow">
</body>
</html>
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Add the following HTML code to the page to use a specific background image. Then replace “C:\Documents and Settings\My Documents\User\My Pictures\image.gif” with the actual file path and file name.
<html>
<body background="C:\Documents and Settings\My Documents\User\My Pictures\image.gif">
</body>
</html>
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Select “File” and “Save” from the toolbar. Name your stationery, adding a HTML file extension to it. Navigate to the folder you want to save the stationery saved in. Then click on “Save.”
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References
- Photo Credit pigeon email image by arabesque from Fotolia.com
