html template email

Hello,

I have a vb6 app that send html emails. at the moment i just generate a string of html and send it (the sending is fine i've worked that one out).

i've heard of html templates and think this would be a much better way off doing things, apparently i put special tags in the html that are then replaced with my variable. my problem is, i cna't find a good tutorial about how to do it.

any code snippets or urls would be helpful

thanks in advance