ok another question about slicing and dicing

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5 total messages Started by stan_alachniewicz Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:43

#362

Author: stan_alachniewicz
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:43

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Hey folks,

So I'm sending out a 6 page email blast (really it is just going to be a long scrolling page, but we are calling it 6 pages when we refer to it).

I created the graphics in 6 separate photoshop files and at first, to quickly set it up, I just strung together 6 large images.

Then I spent this morning slicing the images and putting them into tables hoping that if I used the same background and tiled it, and used gifs for the text I might gain a size advantage.

After all that, I'm having trouble with the tables, first IE was displaying correctly and not firefox, now it's the other way around. I did a test and saved my 6 pages each at jpeg quality 50 which is the quality used on the jpegs when I sliced, and my collective file size is only about 30k larger....

Given that, is it worth it to spend another 2 hours fussing with my tables? Or should I just use the whole pages???

Thanks,
Stan

Re: ok another question about slicing and dicing

#365

Author: Murray
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:21

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> Or should I just use the whole pages???

I assume you mean just make the email all image?  I wouldn't do that at all. 
It will wind up in more trash cans than in boxes.

But I'm not quite sure what you are trying to do with the rest of the post.

-- 
Murray

Re: ok another question about slicing and dicing

#366

Author: stan_alachniewicz
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:24

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Murray,

Email me at stan_alach AT hotmail DOT com

if you want, I can send you this and see what you think. I don't really know how to explain it.

What I'm doing now is to do one LOOOOOONNNNGGGG page in photoshop, then just doing horizontal cuts through it at around 300px by 850px and making those the background of a table.

It won't be an attachment because I'm using a merge software and going to upload to the web.

Re: ok another question about slicing and dicing

#369

Author: Murray
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:22

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> What I'm doing now is to do one LOOOOOONNNNGGGG page in photoshop, then 
> just doing horizontal cuts through it at around 300px by 850px and making 
> those the background of a table.

Won't work.  HTML emails and background images don't get along....


-- 
Murray

Re: ok another question about slicing and dicing

#370

Author: stan_alachniewicz
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:45

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yeah, I figured that out...

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