Email Stationary for WLM

03-09-2008

I appologize if this subject has been covered in the past, but, I'm fairly
new to WLM and was wondering what a good source of stationary is. Can
anyone advise me on this? Thanks in advance.

03-10-2008

The easiest thing to do is actually to create your own stationary. It's very
easy to do.
Get a picture that you like and drop it into the "My Documents\My
Stationary" folder.
Highlight one of the existing ".HTML" files you see in there, Press CTRL + C
then CTRL + V to copy that file.
Right click on the copied file - It should be named "Copy of " with the name
of the file and rename it to whatever you want.
Right click again on this file once you've renamed it and select Open With
and choose notepad.
You will see the following :-
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<STYLE>
BODY {
font-family: Segoe UI;
font-size: 10pt;
color: 000000;
margin-left: 10 px;
margin-top: 15 px;
background-position: top left;
background-repeat: repeat;
}
</STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY id="ridBody" background="blue_tiles.jpg">
</BODY>
</HTML>

The only lines you need to touch are :-
font-family: Segoe UI;
font-size: 10pt;
color: 000000;

Change these to select a different font e.g.
font-family: Arial;
font-size: 14pt;
color: AAAAAA;

This will be a 14pt grey Arial font. If you don't want to mess with fonts
and just want your picture displayed all you need to change is the following
line :-

<BODY id="ridBody" background="blue_tiles.jpg">

Change background=" " and put in the name of your new picture e.g.

<BODY id="ridBody" background="MyNewPicture.gif">

Save the file (File menu/Save), then open up WLM, go to compose under
options and select your new stationary.

Colin Brown
WL MVP

"Deb" <deb314@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OC65sSkgIHA.1996@xxxxxx

	Quote:
	> I appologize if this subject has been covered in the past, but, I'm fairly > new to WLM and was wondering what a good source of stationary is. Can > anyone advise me on this? Thanks in advance.

03-10-2008

I rarely use 'stationery' thus can't offer any advice on sources or user per se.

The newserver msnews.microsoft.com(that also that holds this WLM group) has four separate groups covering the topic of stationery.
Also in WLM under Tools/Options/Compose a button exists to download more stationery. clicking on it initiates a Live Search that
resolves to this link
http://search.live.com/results.aspx?...ery&FORM=SSRE2

Good luck!
--
...winston
ms-mvp windows live mail

"Deb" <deb314@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:OC65sSkgIHA.1996@xxxxxx

	Quote:
	> I appologize if this subject has been covered in the past, but, I'm fairly new to WLM and was wondering what a good source of > stationary is. Can anyone advise me on this? Thanks in advance.

05-20-2008

As of this writing, there is no existing scrolling, musical stationery that
will work in Windows Live Mail, so I played around with some code until I
made it work. The instructions and stationery template are below. I make no
claims of ownership of anything in this post. Do what you will with it.
Offer it for download on your web site, email it to Aunt Sadie, alter the
code, whatever. My hope is that this template will end up in the hands of
stationery-makers who will make lots of beautiful Live Mail stationery and
offer it for download. Why? Because I need some scrolling stationery, as do
lots of other Live Mail users.

My other hope is that this stationery will cause people to realize that
Windows Live Mail can probably handle every kind of stationery that Outlook
Express can handle, and it would be great if that realization spurs those
people to play around with code for different types of stationery until they
all work in Live Mail. The template should be of some help in such endeavors.

I don't know whether this stationery will work in Outlook Express, but if it
doesn't, it would be great if someone would come up with a template that will
work in both programs. If you are a whiz with html, css, javascript, etc.
(and I certainly am not), parts of the code and the placement of certain code
in the template might look odd to you, that's because I did whatever I had to
do to make it work... trial and error.

INSTRUCTIONS:
Even though the default location for Windows Live Mail stationery is My
Documents/My Stationery, this stationery will not work correctly unless all
of the files are located here:
C:/Program Files/Common Files/Microsoft Shared/Stationery

In the template, all items that can be changed are in capital letters. Do
not make any other changes or the stationery will not work. The code for the
midi file is just above the closing body tag, so be sure to scroll all the
way down.

THE TEMPLATE:

<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">


<html><head><title>TITLE HERE</title>

<style type="text/css">
body {
FONT-FAMILY: Arial;
FONT-SIZE: 16pt;
COLOR: 000000;
BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff;
MARGIN-LEFT: 156 px;
margin-top: 10 px;
background-position: top left;
background-repeat: repeat-y;
}
</style>
</head>


<BODY id="ridBody" background="IMAGE.jpg">

<div style="position: absolute; LEFT: 156px; top: 10px; height: 200px;
WIDTH: 604px; padding: 5px;">





TEXT HERE
</div>

<div id=imageholder
style="left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; z-index: -1">
<script type="text/vbscript">

</script>


<bgsound balance="0" src="C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft
Shared\Stationery\MUSIC.mid" volume="0" loop="2">
</body></html>

03-09-2008	#1 (permalink)
Deb Guest	Email Stationary for WLM I appologize if this subject has been covered in the past, but, I'm fairly new to WLM and was wondering what a good source of stationary is. Can anyone advise me on this? Thanks in advance.

05-20-2008	#4 (permalink)
WidgetWorking Guest	Re: Email Stationary for WLM As of this writing, there is no existing scrolling, musical stationery that will work in Windows Live Mail, so I played around with some code until I made it work. The instructions and stationery template are below. I make no claims of ownership of anything in this post. Do what you will with it. Offer it for download on your web site, email it to Aunt Sadie, alter the code, whatever. My hope is that this template will end up in the hands of stationery-makers who will make lots of beautiful Live Mail stationery and offer it for download. Why? Because I need some scrolling stationery, as do lots of other Live Mail users. My other hope is that this stationery will cause people to realize that Windows Live Mail can probably handle every kind of stationery that Outlook Express can handle, and it would be great if that realization spurs those people to play around with code for different types of stationery until they all work in Live Mail. The template should be of some help in such endeavors. I don't know whether this stationery will work in Outlook Express, but if it doesn't, it would be great if someone would come up with a template that will work in both programs. If you are a whiz with html, css, javascript, etc. (and I certainly am not), parts of the code and the placement of certain code in the template might look odd to you, that's because I did whatever I had to do to make it work... trial and error. INSTRUCTIONS: Even though the default location for Windows Live Mail stationery is My Documents/My Stationery, this stationery will not work correctly unless all of the files are located here: C:/Program Files/Common Files/Microsoft Shared/Stationery In the template, all items that can be changed are in capital letters. Do not make any other changes or the stationery will not work. The code for the midi file is just above the closing body tag, so be sure to scroll all the way down. THE TEMPLATE: <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <!-- saved from url=(0014)about:internet --> <html><head><title>TITLE HERE</title> <style type="text/css"> body { FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: 000000; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; MARGIN-LEFT: 156 px; margin-top: 10 px; background-position: top left; background-repeat: repeat-y; } </style> </head> <!-- CHANGE IMAGE NAME HERE. --> <BODY id="ridBody" background="IMAGE.jpg"> <div style="position: absolute; LEFT: 156px; top: 10px; height: 200px; WIDTH: 604px; padding: 5px;"> <!-- THE COMBINED NUMBER OF PIXELS IN THE "LEFT" AND "WIDTH" OF THIS DIV SHOULD EQUAL 760. CHANGE LEFT TO THE SAME NUMBER THAT YOU USED FOR MARGIN-LEFT. SUBTRACT THAT NUMBER OF PIXELS FROM 760 TO GET THE WIDTH. --> <!-- DO NOT PUT ANY PARAGRAPH TAGS INSIDE THIS DIV. IF NEED BE, USE BREAK TAGS INSTEAD. OTHERWISE, WHEN THE STATIONERY IS OPENED IN WINDOWS LIVE MAIL, THE USER WILL NOT BE ABLE TO REMOVE THE TEXT IN ORDER TO TYPE THEIR OWN. --> TEXT HERE </div> <div id=imageholder style="left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; z-index: -1"> <script type="text/vbscript"> <!-- direction="up" SIZEW=1020 ' WIDTH OF THE SCROLLING IMAGE HERE SIZEH=296 ' HEIGHT OF THE SCROLLING IMAGE HERE nail=0 source=document.body.background tall=((screen.height\sizeh)+1)*2 wide=(screen.width\sizew)+1 if direction="up" then max=tall axis=sizeh placement=0 reset=0 elseif direction="left" then max=wide axis=sizew placement=0 reset=0 elseif direction="down" then max=tall axis=0 placement=-sizeh reset=-sizeh elseif direction="right" then max=wide axis=0 placement=-sizew reset=-sizew end if document.write "<pre>" for temp=0 to max if direction="up" then document.write "<img id=pics"&temp&" src><br>" elseif direction="left" then document.write "<img id=pics"&temp&" src>" elseif direction="down" then document.write "<img id=pics"&temp&" src><br>" elseif direction="right" then document.write "<img id=pics"&temp&" src>" end if document.all("pics"&temp).src=source next document.write "</pre>" document.body.background=" " sub scroll() if nail=1 then exit sub end if if placement < axis then setTimeout "move", 1 else placement=reset setTimeout "move", 1 end if end sub sub move() if direction="up" then imageholder.style.top=-placement elseif direction="left" then imageholder.style.left=-placement elseif direction="down" then imageholder.style.top=placement elseif direction="right" then imageholder.style.left=placement end if placement=placement+1 setTimeout "scroll", 1 end sub sub imageholder_onclick() if nail=0 then nail=1 else nail=0 end if scroll() end sub scroll() --> </script> <!-- CHANGE MIDI FILE NAME HERE. --> <bgsound balance="0" src="C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Stationery\MUSIC.mid" volume="0" loop="2"> </body></html>

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