All that is left to do is enter your HTML in to the ‘message’ field!

Why use HTML instead of plain text?
Professional image:
Put yourself in the place of your customers/ leads and how you perceive a company or service that sent an attractive email compared to one that sent a plain text email.

Consistent branding:
The best and strongest brands carry their messaging through every communication tool, ensuring all copy, colours, and logos are the same wherever you look. There is nothing stopping you doing exactly the same.

Add more content and links:
With HTML emails you can turn your autoresponders in to much more than just a “We will get back you” notice.  With menus, images, side bars, boxes etc you can continue selling your services without intruding on the central message.

Designing and coding HTML emails
If you have no or little experience with creating and sending HTML emails, or you want a few tips on taking them to the next level, you can find a couple of really good articles that will help you with HTML email coding & HTML email lay out & design at sitepoint.com

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6 Quick Tips

- Start each email by saying “Hello name”, “Hi name” or “Dear Mr Name”.
- Reply promptly, your customers could go elsewhere if you take too long to reply.
- DON’T TYPE EVERYTHING IN CAPITALS. Unless you want to shout at your customers?!
- Proof read your email before sending, check for spelling errors and grammatical problems.
- Consider who you are sending the email to, do you really need to cc half your company?
- Remember to finish your email correctly. I would recommend putting your name, phone number and email address as a minimum.

These are just a few tips to get you started, if your company uses email regularly I would recommend you have an email policy so that your organisation has a consistent approach to email.

For more tips have a look at Emailreplies.com or visit the Business Email Etiquette Blog which has some good ideas about how to maximise the use of email in your organisation.

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Our new Webmail is even easier to use, is faster to display messages and works in a wide range of web browsers with many advanced features. Some of the great new features include:

New Folder Support
Our updated Webmail system allows you to create as many folders as you need to easily store and organise your mail. You can store up to 100 MB of mail in your folders.

Enhanced Calendar
This handy feature allows you to manage appointments (tasks) on a quarterly, annual, or daily basis.

Outlook-to-Webmail Sync
Microsoft Outlook can be synchronized with your Webmail account so that contacts and scheduler data can be shared between a desktop and Webmail client. If a user adds a new appointment (task) or contact while using Outlook or Webmail, the data will be automatically synchronised between the applications.

Enhanced Address Book
Webmail’s enhanced address book functionality allows you to import and export contacts from/to CSV (comma separated values) file format. You can also sync your Webmail account with your existing address-books.

Spell Checker
Spell check your email before sending it using the built in spell checker with a new and updated language database.

Mailbox Sorting & Searching
Messages contained in your Inbox can be sorted by subject, date, or email address. You can search your mailbox for keywords, allowing quick and easy access to your stored email.

Rich HTML Messages
Create eye-catching emails using different fonts and colours or by embedding pictures and sounds. Why not add your company logo or a customised signature? You can easily attach files to your emails to send to friends, family or colleagues.

Email Filters
Create rules to move specific messages or block unwanted senders altogether.

Along with the new features we have also implemented a new hardware platform for the Webmail system to operate on. This uses state-of-the-art hardware load balancers to distribute traffic to our to our cluster of Webmail servers. Your messages are centrally stored on giant disk arrays and backed up each day, first to another disk array and then to tape which is stored offsite.

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