Using Windows Live Mail as a Web Page Editor

In the context of this article I’m referring to the Windows Live Mail the email client and not the email service (Hotmail).

When composing an email in WL Mail, most people use HTML to use features such as colored text, bold/italic/underline, and so on.

It is true that any email composed in WL Mail can be saved as a web page, and it’s quite easy to do.

Compose a new email but don’t address it to anyone. Type up your message as you would for a web page. Style it as you see fit. Then click File/Save As, and when the save screen pops up, choose the file type as HTML, then save your HTML document. This can easily be uploaded to a web server afterward.

If you edit the document with a text editor such as Notepad, you’ll notice it has all the proper formatting.

Too bad Word doesn’t produce HTML as clean as WL Mail does.

Note: Images inserted into an email message are not saved with the HTML file. When composing with WL Mail for use as web pages, it’s meant for text-only documents.

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Aaron Fournier
Yikes! Not sure if I’d feel comfortable using a program like this for use as a web editor. Looking at the video you just made on making a signature with Windows Live Mail, the client used way too much code to display three links, a picture, and your name. I really like having clean code, so I’d just rather hand code it myself using a text editor.
I guess I can see the benefits though if you don’t know how to a code or you just don’t feel like hand coding.
Stevengcocker
Does that actually work as good as cuteftp ?