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Question

Creating An Customized Icon to Send In Email

Mar 1, 2016 2:20PM PST

I am trying to figure out how to create/if it's possible to create a customized desktop icon (that opens a webpage) to include in an email. It is a generic, automated welcome email that people receive after submitting a volunteer application to my organization. I would like them to be able to download the icon to their desktop to help them easily navigate back to our volunteer portal. Is this possible? I would need to offer both Mac and Windows friendly.

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hmm
Mar 1, 2016 3:05PM PST

you could make an image, link it to the webpage and include in the email. They may then be able to right clk and choose to bookmark it. Any bookmark can be placed on their desktop if they want. Or make the icon for the webpage itself and when they make the bookmark that icon will be included and if a copy placed on desktop, it will be there too.

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Re: desktop icon
Mar 3, 2016 2:59PM PST

The usual way I use to visit a favorite website (such as this forum, or my bank, or a news site) is to just type a few characters of the url in Firefox and click on it when it's in the first 5 entries below the address bar. And I have no desktop item that jumps to a page in a browser at all.
And for some favorite sites I have a bootmark.

But a desktop item is just a file. So I think to can attach it to your mail and instruct the receiver to save it in the desktop folder in their profile. That's easy to test by putting such a link on your desktop, mail it to your webmail, login to another Windows account and see if it works.

Kees