Asenath: I'm desperate to learn this because it is a business oportunity I have and the company specifically wants the kind of adverts we all get in our junk mail folders. :oS (And before anyone has a cow about SPAM, I know for a fact that the emails they send are to people who've signed up at their site for newsletters and adverts! *g*) SO, that's the reason I have to know this. They do not want attachments at all and stationary -- well, that's something I hadn't thought of, but I might be able to design a template there to enhance the email. *thinking out loud* That's a great idea, Asenath, considering that people DO have their programs set to text only. As I learn more about this, I see that to have an effective marketing campaign, you must have a healthy balance of images and text.

Alerissa: I'm going to give this a try. You are brilliant to think of covering your bases like that! I DO wonder if the redundancy will cause any display problems, though. Guess I won't know until I try! *s* Thanks for spelling this out for me so clearly. I've come a LONG way with my CSS skills, but I'm still not a pro like you and Asenath!

I would like to point out that you can *sort of* control the link colors by using a method that Phenom pointed out to me (which I had long forgotten), and that's the use of the mouseover/mouseout commands in HTML. That was a brilliant catch IMO. *g* Now that we've all gone to CSS for our perks, it's been surprisingly easy to forget the HTML of yesteryear. *g* Thanks, Phenom for your great solution.

I imagine there are some other tricks to solving this problem -- and until the email programs find a way to make email safe AND allow images and coding, then people will have to keep finding ways around it. Obviously, where there's a will, there's a way! *s* If anyone else has thoughts on this, I'm open to more suggestions! Thanks, Phenom, Alerissa and Asenath!