[Hypatia]

My friend asked me the code used to link a banner pic inserted in his email to his website. He wishes to put the animated banner in his emails and have the recipient be able to click the banner and be directed to his website.

The first question is how to insert the banner picture into his email?
The second is what is the code/way to link this image to his website so when clients click it, they are directed to his website?
Is there specific code that can be used to link the animation to his site when posted anywhere?

Help,
Hypatia

[NeedKarma]

You would have to create an html email first and since most email clients do not display images by default or are set to Rich Text or Plain Text no one will see his image link.

Anyway here is how the code looks:

<A HREF="http://www.htmlgoodies.com"><IMG  SRC="homepage.gif"></A>

[LTheobald]

Just a little addition to Need's code. Add an "alt" tag to the image. A lot of email clients nowadays block images in emails unless you OK them. This will mean that a red cross could be shown in place of the image. An alt tag will ensure that if the image isn't shown, that some reasonably descriptive text will be.

<a href="http://www.somewhere.com"><img src="http://www.somewhere.com/images/image.gif" alt="Banner for Somewhere" /></a>

Also - upload your picture to somewhere on the internet (PhotoBucket for example) and place that link into the img tag. Just linking to the file on your PC is not going to work when you send that email out.