number of ways to do that. If you want to save yourself the headache you can actually use 1 of the many pre-built templates and customise it with the built in content management it provides. Otherwise you can start from scratch. Alternatively you can choose one of the pre-built templates, copy out the html and edit it in dreamweaver (or editor of your choice) to suit your needs then re-import it into mailchimp. I am a big fan of mailchimp as it can handle all you subscriptions and bounces (its a legal requirement to allow people to unsubscribe to a mailing list). The only downside with mailchimp is the user interface which is kind of convoluted for which should be a straight forward task. What are the tips to creating a newsletter with large images, at times l look at some newsletters and they have large images, but the images are broken into segments. Is there a simple method to send large images without having servers blocking the images? Yes, I find Photoshop is quite good for this. You can create a large Photoshop document and create separate sections with the Slice Tool. Then when you Export for Wed & Devices you can select "HTML and Images" and Photoshop will create the separate images plus the table layout to put them in. Hope that helps, Alex. There actually is a way to show cell backgrounds in Outlook. It's not fun but it works and doesn't affect how things render in