thanks Paul & Howie for the help!!!
At 01:00 AM 5/7/2002, you wrote:
>Easy way? Sure. Place the text that changes in a database as I described
>below. Then your HTML template (including HTML and place holders for text
>pulled from the database) stays exactly the same for every
>newsletter. You send the newsletter out by selecting the date. An added
>benefit is that you automatically archive your newsletter, and can send
>any earlier issue out at any time.
>
>best, paul
>
>At 12:39 AM 5/7/02 +0800, you wrote:
>>Thanks for your responses.
>>
>>Actually we know how to send using HTML what I'm asking is what's the
>>best way to create and use HTML email templates with iMS, is there a cool
>>add on or another product that works well with iMS and enables us to
>>manage our mailing lists efficiently ? Using HTML templates reduces our
>>workload for each newsletter, as the basic format and layout of each
>>email stays the same and we just replace the content which consists of
>>text. - Just wondering if there is an easy way to doing this...
>>
>>Thanks..
>>
>>
>>
>>At 10:12 PM 5/6/2002, you wrote:
>>>I'm not sure I understand the question.
>>>
>>>A. You want to know how to send using HTML
>>>or
>>>B. You're sending using HTML and want to use a template
>>>
>>>Howie's response answered A.
>>>
>>>For B, we use ColdFusion and set the body text a la
>>><cfset body = "blah blah.....blah">
>>>
>>>For your case we used to send a newsletter like:
>>>
>>><cfset body = "FormatBlah1 #CurrentContent1# FormatBlah2
>>>#CurrentContent2# etc">
>>>
>>>We even pulled the #CurrentContent1#, #CurrentContent2#, etc, out of a
>>>database according to the subscriber's choice of which of the 40 topic
>>>areas they wanted to see content from. So each newsletter was (at least
>>>potentially) unique.
>>>
>>>best, paul
>>>
>>>
>>>At 01:51 PM 5/6/02 +0800, you wrote:
>>>>Is there a way we can use HTML templates with iMS to send our newsletters?
>>>>
>>>>Using HTML templates reduces our workload for each newsletter, as the
>>>>basic format and layout of each email stays the same and we just
>>>>replace the content which consists of text. Is there a way in which we
>>>>can use HTML templates with iMS ? Is there any product or add on that
>>>>we could try to integrate?
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