Embedding Links and Graphics in Newsletters

When creating your newsletters you may choose to embed links to Events, Documents or Photos that reside on your web-site. Newsletter can be treated like any other document from this perspective. Instructions are provided in the topics related to managing Documents.

Users with a knowledge of HTML should be aware that NeatClubs will automatically re-write relative URLs that reference NeatClubs documents events or photos so that will be “absolute” URLs of the form http://mysite.com/uploads/mydocument.pdf by the time they are received by an e-mail client.

This automated re-writing of URLs for outgoing e-mail is necessary since when a newsletter is viewed from an e-mail client such as Outlook or GMail, an absolute path to the server needs to be provided. Generally any "shortcut" relative HTML links of the form “href=’uploads/…’” or “img src=’uploads/…’” will be re-written in this fashion as will href references to recognized NeatClubs modules (such as event.php as an example).

If you are using the provided editor to create newsletters this process should be automatic,  If you are creating your own links or hand-crafting HTML in your newsletter, please be sure that the links in your HTML contain absolute references back to your web-site rather than relative references.