Re: [WSG] Ways of sending a HTML email

2010-01-07 Thread Marie-Laure Bouchet
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 ema

RE: [WSG] Ways of sending a HTML email

2010-01-07 Thread Michael MD
> 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

Re: [WSG] Ways of sending a HTML email

2010-01-07 Thread David McKinnon
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 ed

RE: [WSG] Looking for Accessible and Standards based Drupal Main Navigation Module

2010-01-07 Thread Thierry Koblentz
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 *

Re: [WSG] Looking for Accessible and Standards based Drupal Main Navigation Module

2010-01-07 Thread James O'Neill
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

[WSG] Re: WSG Digest

2010-01-07 Thread Alan C. Whiteman
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 S

Re: [WSG] a tiny usability question on web form

2010-01-07 Thread tee
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/guidelin

Re: [WSG] Ways of sending a HTML email

2010-01-07 Thread Jayachandran Kandasamy
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 lit

RE: [WSG] a tiny usability question on web form

2010-01-07 Thread Peter Hislop
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 Stand

Re: [WSG] Looking for Accessible and Standards based Drupal Main Navigation Module

2010-01-07 Thread David Laakso
(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://webstandardsgr