HTML is nothing more than pure text that includes "tags" to make the pure text look better. The policies governing HTML are set by the W3C committee. Although HTML is more limited, the purpose is to gain the ability to display formatted text on a variety of servers using a variety of operating systems, and the users may use a variety of Broswsers..  

HOW you proceed should depend on how many graphics you need to insert into your web-based mail message. If you would like to post only one or two images into your message, and you can bring them onto the screen, I highly recommend Jing.

NEW - Using Jing with OLS or Web-based messaging

When your message contains lots of graphs, graphics, and/or well-formed math expressions using MathType or Equation Editor, read on.

The buttons to the left present basics of HTML. What we need to do is put basic knowledge of HTML together to figure out how to make communicating math easier when we are restricted to a text-only environment. This environment is typical of OLS at University of Phoenix, but it would also be true of any web-based email system. Although knowledge of HTML is not required, it is helpful when you want to understand what makes it work and how to fix problems.

The WHYs behind it all

Skip the Whys - give me the How-Tos

OK I get the hows. But how come my text formatting gets messed up?