Point of interest, in most website the web pages has a heading section at the top, generally containing a company logo, promotional image or animation. While designing a VMail layout, I came to the conclusion that the 'heading' simply doesn't belong in the layout. The VMail I worked on was 'functional', the 'heading' only gets in the way, a normal website 'displays' information, it doesn't actually 'do' anything. The 'heading' is for the benefit of the provider of the website, not the visitor. I started doing this site after the VMail layout and thought I'd put the navigation on the side, this introduced the need for a 'heading', I don't seem to be able to get around the problem, the layout just doesn't 'feel' right without it. I guess people are psychological 'used to' the 'heading', even if it is just a complete waste of space. Not one to be defeated too easily, I put scrolling text in the 'heading' space.

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 VMail works with Outlook and Explorer and consequently it would work with HotMail and YahooMail running in Explorer, also web browser and EMail client that use MicroSoft component to render HTML. Generally the great majority of EMail clients in use.

Practically, the great majority turned out to be about ten percent. Spam filters disables VMail and the 'great majority' gets deleted before the VMail has a chance to do its stuff. A staggering 0.4 percent visited the website as a consequence of receiving a VMail in my trial. Actually, this is a very high success rate but I'm giving away freebie CVMail instead of selling stuff. Conclusion, it impresses the recipient but the selling ultimately depends on the product.

EMail is a means of delivery, as a webpage in an EMail client, downloading a VMail from a website or it could be an EMail attachment, all gets the job done.

VMail is not necessarily static, it comes with a mailer that encodes information dynamically. The mailer/encoder creates a VBook which it can send as an EMail, attach it in an EMail or it could be downloaded from a website. The mailer/encoder is designed to be driven by a web server as well as operating as an independent mailer.

The dynamically encoded information depends on the design of the specific VMail, the mailer/encoder is specifically written for each individual VMail developed.

There is a free promotional VMail mailer/encoder, 'CVMail'. It is available for download, useful to see how it works in practice. Also useful if you know anyone looking for a job.

Requirement: 32bit Windows operating system (98/NT/2000/XP)

SMTP server for routing EMail

'live' web space to store the JAVA and online data

VMail is not presently available for UNIX, UNIX support may be available at a some point in the future.




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