Re: [WSG] Ways of sending a HTML email
This article from Freelanceswitch gives some good practical info on email newsletters as well as ammunition to persuade clients! http://tinyurl.com/ybsvoyq I know Paul didn't want to spend time on Campaign Monitor, but they do make sure that their templates are readable in nearly all major email clients & browsers and they are very keen on email standards. (Unsure about the other services in this respect) cheers Marie-Laure Bouchet ***List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfmUnsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfmHelp: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org***
RE: [WSG] Ways of sending a HTML email
> Since Outlook is not the best HTML editor it's quite likely something will get broken at some stage or other, so it's not fool-proof, but it produces better > results than Word. I thought Outlook uses Word as its editor. If you want to build html email functionality into a cms or script this may help: http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/MIME-Lite-3.027/lib/MIME/Lite.pm *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
Re: [WSG] Ways of sending a HTML email
If there's anything I've learned about doing HTM email is that it can't be done very well on a budget. That said, I'd recommend Campaign Monitor's or MailChimp's free templates as a good starting point: http://www.campaignmonitor.com/templates/ You can then use these in your email client and edit the content in the email client. If your client's using MS Outlook, you can set the template up as Outlook stationery. I'm not in front of a PC with Outlook installed, but you can look up how to do this in Outlook's help. You can do something similar in Apple Mail, but I haven't tried it on anything else Since Outlook is not the best HTML editor it's quite likely something will get broken at some stage or other, so it's not fool-proof, but it produces better results than Word. Sooner or later though your client will have to pay out money, either in preparing template, the email or, in my experience, in fixing up the email once someone breaks it or Outlook does something weird to your template. Using Campaign Monitor, or MailChimp may provide better value for them. Regards, David On 07/01/2010, at 2:34 AM, Paul Collins wrote: > Hi all, > > A client of mine wants a HTML email with very little budget! So, I don't want > to spend time setting it up in Campaign monitor for him. > > I'm wondering, can you send HTML emails straight from Word or Acrobat, or > something like that these days? I'm not up to speed and can't find any info. > It would be good if I could hand him some kind of design he can edit and send > himself. > > Thanks for any advice, > Paul > > > > *** > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
RE: [WSG] Looking for Accessible and Standards based Drupal Main Navigation Module
Hi David, >> (shameless plug) >> >> >> >> http://tjkdesign.com/articles/Pure_CSS_Dropdown_Menus.asp >> >> >> > Fwiw, I've used it without issue (other than my own, of course). Nice > stuff, me /thimk/... Thanks for the feedback -- Regards, Thierry | www.tjkdesign.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
Re: [WSG] Looking for Accessible and Standards based Drupal Main Navigation Module
Hey Thierry, Actually, your solution and the Improved Suckerfish thingy were the first two that came to mind. =) Any other options for Drupal out there? Thanks again everyone. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
[WSG] Re: WSG Digest
The cheapest way is probably with Mozilla Thunderbird and a mail-merge plug-in. Alan C. Whiteman Visualis Web Design http://visualis.us (562) 305-2862 On Thursday 07 January 2010 18:10:44 you wrote: > * > WEB STANDARDS GROUP MAIL LIST DIGEST > * > > > From: Paul Collins > Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 15:34:01 + > Subject: Ways of sending a HTML email > > Hi all, > > A client of mine wants a HTML email with very little budget! So, I don't > want to spend time setting it up in Campaign monitor for him. > > I'm wondering, can you send HTML emails straight from Word or Acrobat, or > something like that these days? I'm not up to speed and can't find any > info. It would be good if I could hand him some kind of design he can edit > and send himself. > > Thanks for any advice, > Paul > > > * > From: Nathalie Lapierre > Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 04:14:00 +1100 > Subject: Nathalie Lapierre is out of the office > > > I will be out of the office starting 07/01/2010 and will not return until > 15/01/2010. > > If your request is urgent you can contact the Web Content Group No: on 8253 > (2)0499 or email Website Requests/CORPAU/WBCAU/WBG > > > Please consider our environment before printing this email. > > WARNING - This email and any attachments may be confidential. If received > in error, please delete and inform us by return email. Because emails and > attachments may be interfered with, may contain computer viruses or other > defects and may not be successfully replicated on other systems, you must > be cautious. Westpac cannot guarantee that what you receive is what we > sent. If you have any doubts about the authenticity of an email by Westpac, > please contact us immediately. > > It is also important to check for viruses and defects before opening or > using attachments. Westpac's liability is limited to resupplying any > affected attachments. > > This email and its attachments are not intended to constitute any form of > financial advice or recommendation of, or an offer to buy or offer to sell, > any security or other financial product. We recommend that you seek your > own independent legal or financial advice before proceeding with any > investment decision. > > Westpac Institutional Bank is a division of Westpac Banking Corporation, a > company registered in New South Wales in Australia under the Corporations > Act 2001 (Cth). Westpac is authorised and regulated in the United Kingdom > by the Financial Services Authority and is registered at Cardiff in the > United Kingdom as Branch No. BR 106. Westpac operates in the United States > of America as a federally chartered branch, regulated by the Office of the > Comptroller of the Currency. > > Westpac Banking Corporation ABN 33 007 457 141. > > * > From: "James O'Neill" > Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 16:23:41 -0600 > Subject: Looking for Accessible and Standards based Drupal Main Navigation > Module > > Greetings all, > > We are working with an external developer who does speak Accessibility and > Usability a bit, but not enough for me. > > I am looking for accessible and standards based Drupal main navigation > module thingy with the specific requirement of being navigable via tabbing, > including submenus. If you know of any modules, articles or specific > implementations on how to do this, that would be great. > > Thanks all, > > Jim > > > * > From: Thierry Koblentz > Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 17:35:02 -0800 > Subject: RE: [WSG] Looking for Accessible and Standards based Drupal Main > Navigation Module > > > We are working with an external developer who does speak Accessibility > > > > and Usability a bit, but not enough for me. > > > > > > > > I am looking for accessible and standards based Drupal main navigation > > > > module thingy with the specific requirement of being navigable via > > > > tabbing, including submenus. If you know of any modules, articles or > > > > specific implementations on how to do this, that would be great. > > (shameless plug) > > > > http://tjkdesign.com/articles/Pure_CSS_Dropdown_Menus.asp > > > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Thierry | www.tjkdesign.com > > > > > > * > From: David Laakso > Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:14:14 -0500 > Subject: Re: [WSG] Looking for Accessible and Standards based Drupal Main > Navigation Module > > > (shameless plug) > > > > > > > > http://tjkdesign.com/articles/Pure_CSS_Dropdown_Menus.asp > > Fwiw, I've used it without issue (other than my own, of course). Nice > stuff, me /thimk/... > > ~d > > * > From: "Peter Hislop" > Dat
Re: [WSG] a tiny usability question on web form
On Jan 7, 2010, at 1:18 AM, Peter Hislop wrote: I'd look to the postal standards for countries that you're expecting to ship to. Paul, Thanks! Great tips! tee *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
Re: [WSG] Ways of sending a HTML email
Hi Paul, Check this links you may get some ideas behind it.. :) http://www.addme.com/newsletters/issue293.htm http://www.mailchimp.com/resources/html_email_templates/ cheers, JC On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Paul Collins wrote: > Hi all, > > A client of mine wants a HTML email with very little budget! So, I don't > want to spend time setting it up in Campaign monitor for him. > > I'm wondering, can you send HTML emails straight from Word or Acrobat, or > something like that these days? I'm not up to speed and can't find any info. > It would be good if I could hand him some kind of design he can edit and > send himself. > > Thanks for any advice, > Paul > > > > *** > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
RE: [WSG] a tiny usability question on web form
I'd look to the postal standards for countries that you're expecting to ship to. This Australia Post publication: http://www.auspost.com.au/correctaddress/adStand.pdf specifies formats, field lengths and type formats. It also refers to two Australian Standards for data formats: Australian Standard AS4212-1994 - "Geographic Information Systems - Data dictionary for transfer of street addressing information"; and, Australian Standard AS4590-1999 "Interchange of Client Information". Hope that this provides a useful research direction. Regards, Peter Hislop -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of tee Sent: Wednesday, 6 January 2010 1:20 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] a tiny usability question on web form Was making a web form for a commercial software which clientele are mainly from EU countries, in the original form the order of the Country field. The order looks like this: address/street country state city zipcode Maybe I'd been making too many web forms for US and some Asian countries' clients, I find it creates a tiny usability issue for user to have the country field places above state, city and zipcode. From my own experience, I always use tabbing to navigate web form, in a few US sites that I did shopping and that has country, city, state and zipcode setup in a non-US format, I find them to be a usability problem because I didn't read carefully but out of habit (and this is something I expect many web users would do), entered my address expecting them to be in standard US format. My client thinks otherwise: quote: Regarding the order of the fields. I understand your background, but from a usability standpoint it seems weird to me to for example show the "Country" field AFTER the "State" field. Why? Because the "State" field is depending on the Country field. If a user goes from field to field and are not from the US, they will be surprised to see that only US states are available in the "State" field. It seems more natural to choose a country first, and then have a field update (change from selectbox with states to a input text field) BELOW that instead of ABOVE that. Is is a non-issue how the order is? For sites that cater international users, is there a more standard format for address in web form? Thanks! tee *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
Re: [WSG] Looking for Accessible and Standards based Drupal Main Navigation Module
(shameless plug) http://tjkdesign.com/articles/Pure_CSS_Dropdown_Menus.asp Fwiw, I've used it without issue (other than my own, of course). Nice stuff, me /thimk/... ~d *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
