[jewel]

How do you add a graphic as a background in the OSX Mail application? images/icons/confused.gif

[Nobody]

You don't.

Such things are naughty, take up excessive bandwith, and annoys a whole lot of people images/icons/smile.gif

But, I guess if you really wanted to, you could write HTML-source for your email.

Tor

[Nobody]

Tor, I wanted to do this for an invitation. Any online "how to's" out there you can point me to?

[AppleLaw]

If you're going to make an invitation, why not use the Apple iCard invitations? I've received nothing but compliments each time I sent them out to friends and family.

If you're hell-bent on using e-mail, though, I would simply write a web page using Dreamweaver, Mozilla, Netscape, Microsoft Word, etc. with a table constrained to 400 x 300 and then add a background image to the table. You can then add rows and columns for text .

The background image should be located on another accessible web site so the file doesn't appear as an attachment that people will have to download. The key is telling the e-mail program to display a background image that can be found somewhere else and is ready to be displayed. This should be true of ALL your graphics, actually. So, get your graphics together, upload them to your homepage on Apple or Geocities or whatever, display them, copy their URLs, and then use those URLs when writing the e-mail.

It's a daunting task, to say the least, which is why I think the Apple iCard invitations are a much better option.

Good luck

[ 06-11-2002: Message edited by: Yossarian [USA] ]