E-mail your files, once they are completely ready, to Inside@britsys.net. Your e-mail program may or may not encode files for transmission. Your e-mail program may or may not compress (archive, ZIP, or Stuff) files before transmitting them.
For even better results, contact the art director for a private nonpublished email address to send to. Nonpublished addresses collect less junk mail (spam) and are much more reliable from both your end and ours.
If you aren't sure how your e-mail program works regarding file attachments, it is a very good idea to use a file-compression program such as WinZIP or Stuffit to pack all the art, fonts, and any other elements together into an archive file for transmission. File integrity is easiest to preserve if the files have been compressed prior to sending.
The best way to test whether your basic e-mail settings work properly is to just send a test file. Send a file as close the actual final file format, and send it as early as possible.
In your e-mail message, make sure you use the subject line to full advantage. Mention the person you are sending the message to (e.g. "Attn: Dan Rankin") AND as much of the subject of the ad as you can fit in. Try to use both the name of the company that will be billed for the ad, as well as the main subject of the ad and the date that it will run. If you can fit it in, also mention the size of the ad.
A good subject line might read, for example: "Attn: Kathleen. Advocate Hospital "Maternity Care" Ad for 9/18 issue, 1/4 page"
Subject lines are critical here for sorting out your ad from the inevitable junk mail, and for identifying your ad among the many other important e-mails that we get every day.
If you have experience sending files by FTP, consider asking for a username and password for access to our FTP server. Contact the art director at (773) 313-2000 for more information.
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