Been trying Google for 2 days and can't get the code below to work.

I would rather save an image from one of the "Free Images" sites available on the WEB into a folder on my computer to insert into the Email rather than using a URL to the site that contains the image, but I can't get either method to work.

The image is in the Body of my Email but it doesn't show correctly. It just shows as an Icon(I guess), but the picture doesn't show. I get the Display Image message on the Email but no Picture. I also do not get my alt:'no pic' message.

I have 2 questions: Question 1: What is wrong with the URL code below??

& HtmlBodyFirstPart _
& "<p style='color:red;font-size:40px;'><strong>HAPPY BIRTHDAY!</strong></p>" _
& "<p></P><img src='http://www.w3schools.com/images/boat.gif' alt:'no pic'/>" _

Question 2: How would I go about Embeding a Picture from a folder on my computer??

thanks for the Help