Re: [WSG] Ways of sending a HTML email
My bad, we're still on Outlook 2003 where I work. Later Outlook versions as you say, use Word, but that's not a good thing. http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/01/10/microsoft-breaks-html-email-rendering-in-outlook/ On 08/01/2010, at 11:13 AM, Michael MD wrote: I thought Outlook uses Word as its editor. *** 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 pauldcoll...@gmail.com 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] 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] 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
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***
[WSG] 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 *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
