Creating html email newsletter in Outlook 2003

Hi,
I've had a good look through the forum and haven't been able
to find the answer to this (most likely) simple issue. I have
created an email html newsletter in DW 8 and I have found out how
to copy/paste the code into an Outlook Express email's source, but
how do I do it in Outlook 2003???
I'd be grateful if someone could put me out of my misery :-)
Thanks a mill!!!

You can place your HTML file in your Stationery Folder,
then open Outlook,
select that file as Stationery,
Select your recipients (or group) and send.
My folder is here:
"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Stationery"
"Jan Baggesen" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:eb73ga$92p$[email protected]..
> Hi,
>
> I've had a good look through the forum and haven't been
able to find the
> answer to this (most likely) simple issue. I have
created an email html
> newsletter in DW 8 and I have found out how to
copy/paste the code into an
> Outlook Express email's source, but how do I do it in
Outlook 2003???
>
> I'd be grateful if someone could put me out of my misery
>
> Thanks a mill!!!
>

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Creating HTML email newsletter

Hey all,
Not sure what forum.....
Looking for a program for creating newsletter emails containing graphics and pictures etc.., not sure what it is called. Like what you get from Apple, Borders or any big company.
Thanks,
Al

I just did one recently by hand, and so have some fresh experience; it's HTML & CSS at the crux of it.
Learned that there are unique parameters beyond web page knowledge that must be considered when doing this. There are a lot of quirks that you need to test against; many email clients render html emails differently and so it's a matter of getting a good balance of aesthetic & features. Plus you don't want to leave out people who prefer to use text only in their email... (they exist are are numerous for better or worse).
The quickest way to get up and running is probably to do your newsletter design in your preferred HTML editing program, view the page in Safari, then hit CMD-I (in Leopard).
The result won't be as professional (or size efficient) as it could be, but it's a quick start.
After spending about 2 days rolling my own, I still would love to know the workflow Apple uses haha!

Html email newsletter font tags link help

i'm trying to write an html email newsletter. i've discovered
the only way
it will work is if i use tables and font tags. the only
problem i'm having
right now is that i can't change my link colors. i've tried
css and the body
tags, neither work. the body tag i tried is:
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" LINK="#CCCCCC"
ALINK="#CCCCCC"
vlink="#CCCCCC">
yet the links still appear the default blue and visisted
links are purple.
does anyone know how to change the link colors using font
tags?

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"ryansebiz" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> inserted it right after the opening <body> tag and
the links are still
> blue and purple. i emailed the html to gmail,
thunderbird and outlook and
> it's the same in all three.
>
> i tried using css (albeit in the head tags) to style the
text and that
> didn't work at all - i had to resort to font tags.
>
> any other ideas on how to get these links to work?
>
> thanks murray.
>
> "Murray *ACE*" <[email protected]>
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>> <body>
>> <style type="text/css">
>> 
>> </style>
>> ...
>> </body>
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>> "ryansebiz" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>> news:[email protected]...
>>> thanks murray for the prompt reply.
>>>
>>> i'm not sure how to put the css between the body
tags without it
>>> appearing as text on the page.
>>>
>>> for example:
>>>
>>> a {color:#CCCCCC}
>>> a: hover {color:#CCCCCC}
>>>
>>> appears as text on the page. is there a special
markup to hide this css
>>> between the body tags?
>>>
>>> "Murray *ACE*"
<[email protected]> wrote in message
>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>> Use CSS, but put it between <body> and
</body>.
>>>>
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you do so!)
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>>>>
>>>> "ryansebiz" <[email protected]>
wrote in message
>>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>>> i'm trying to write an html email
newsletter. i've discovered the only
>>>>> way it will work is if i use tables and
font tags. the only problem
>>>>> i'm having right now is that i can't
change my link colors. i've tried
>>>>> css and the body tags, neither work. the
body tag i tried is:
>>>>>
>>>>> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"
text="#000000" LINK="#CCCCCC" ALINK="#CCCCCC"
>>>>> vlink="#CCCCCC">
>>>>>
>>>>> yet the links still appear the default
blue and visisted links are
>>>>> purple.
>>>>>
>>>>> does anyone know how to change the link
colors using font tags?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

Html eMail Newsletter

For those of you who have worked with me before - I'm trying, I really am.
I'm building a html email newsletter from scratch for the first time and running into a few issues.
I put this on a website so that you can access the code. http://www.merelyvinyl.com/newsletter_exp.html
On the surface I only see three real issues (a box extending beyond its area, text that won't align, text that won't adjust to the right color), but when I ask Dreamweaver to point out code irregularities - well there is one consistant issue I'm doing wrong over and over again. And one small issue with font sizing (code) that I can probably sort out.
That being said, as typical of me, I have bitten off more than I can chew. I've basically used two examples of email html and tweaked it to build what I wanted. So...........I can't tell whether my tags are overlapping or written in the wrong way (or both).
Yes, I know. Kind of a mess in there. What I find strange about html is when you try to tweak it - it invariably wants to get worse than it was originally.
Thanks in advance. Nancy I always appreciate your help.
MM

If you are planning on sending this to all your customers, I wouldn't think "just live with what we've got" would be a good response to have. How your newsletters look to the customer would either encourage them to continue to use you, or discourage them and you might find they "unsubscribe" from your notifications faster than you can send them out.
There is a lot of work to get the emails to look correct in EVERY email client but fortunately there are a lot of helpful guides around the internet to help with that. I have listed some below. All you need is one, fully working template which can then serve as the basis for all the rest. It's time well spent, in my opinion.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/01/19/design-and-build-an-email-newsletter-without-lo sing-your-mind/
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/design-guidelines/
http://24ways.org/2009/rock-solid-html-emails
http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/top-html-email-coding-mistakes/
http://mailchimp.com/resources/guides/html/email-marketing-field-guide/
MailChimp has a very extensive range of guides to help you with every aspect of the email campaigns so it would be a good place to spend some time.
Rik

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Help needed with creating HTML email in Dreamweaver

Hi everyone, would really appreciate some help with a dilemma or two that I have.
I have created the following newsletter in Dreamweaver and uploaded it to our website:
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Now, when I go into my email mass mailing client (Handymailer) and send a test out, I encounter a couple of problems.
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Secondly, in Hotmail, the table displays fine, but it does say that "This message is too wide to fit your screen. Show full message."
Once I click "Show full message" it displays in full, but I then need to scroll across to the middle of the browser to view the email.
If I left align the newsletter will this problem be solved? Or is there a way in Dreamweaver that I can edit the entire page size so that it's not too wide?
The table is 600px wide so I assumed that any email sent out would shrink to this size.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! This is the first full HTML email I have sent out so it's going to be far from perfect!

mozza34 wrote:
I need to look into using inline css styles, I have no idea how to so need to read up on those.
I created a transparent GIF and placed it, but that moves my text down because the image is in the way? Am I doing that right?
Make the transparent gif 1px high.
Is it the links in the right column that go onto two lines? If so that could be because the links are wider than the actual column itself..so you will have to make column wider.
If you can't sort it, have a look at the code below, copy and paste into a new Dreamweaver document and test out. Inline css styling is used in the code below. I've masked your email so no spam bots get hold of it.
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September 2011 Update
Welcome to our September 2011 Newsletter! Keeping you up to date with all things Nova Design.
New Addition
We would like to welcome to our team Kieran Duggal. Kieran joins us from Schneider Electric and will be placed into a newly created recruitment role within the company.
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 2011 has been a busy, exciting year so far and long may it continue. Our clients are what make us, and we would like to thank those of you who have placed business with us in the past.</td>
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Creating HTML emails

Hi, guys!
I'm a print guy, not a web guy, so please show me the path! I can do a little HTML and CSS, but nothing fancy.
My company is asking me to take over an email newsletter that is sent out embeded into the email body as an HTML message. It was orginaly done (not by me) in MS Word using tables, and those things will strech out after being sent.
I ahve 3 questions:
1. Why are the table stretching? Is it because they were done using Word tables?
2. 100% of the people who will be receiving this will open it using MS Outlook. If I'm designing for Outlook, do I need to build using tables, or can Outlook interpret CSS Divs?
3. Some people will be using outlook in mobile devices. Is there anyway to create a mobile version for them or is this the kind of thing I'd need to host on a web page to pull off?
Thanks, guys!

Here is a compatibility chart for all major e-mail clients including web services (Gmail, Yahoo mail, etc..) for what they support and what they don't: http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/
Tables are globally supported. CSS is not, on some of them. It depends on the demographic that you're sending this out to. If it is majorly Outlook only, look at the link above to see what fits you best and create your newsletter.
Another best practice is to include a text link to a webpage containing the same newsletter to the top of your newsletter - this way, if the newsletter doesn't load on the e-mail client, users can still click on the link to see the exact same newsletter as a webpage on your website.
You may also want to look at http://www.mailchimp.com - It's a great service, they have a free plan too. You may want to try it out. Very user-friendly and easy to create/ administer.
Other than that, you don't have to use MS Word. You could do it using Dreamweaver or any HTML code editing program - even Textmate can do it for you as long as you know your code.
Quick tip: Be sure to load up the images to your webserver and link to them as an absolute link in your HTML code so the images are loaded from your webserver. You cannot provide local/ relative links like you'd do in a normal webpage as you're sending this out via e-mail and relative links won't show up.
Good luck.
-ST

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I'm having two problems. Before we applied patch 9501440 (which replaces patch 6135146 for BI Publisher 5.6.3 on Oracle EBS 11i) my test PDF attachment emails came across as their body being in a file called bodyText.txt as an attachment. Applying the patch fixed this issue but now our regular HTML emails which should be in the body don't work properly when received from Outlook 2003 (which is the version we're on). The HTML appears as an attachment. There's another patch for this but it's bundled as the latest roll-up for the standalone XML Publisher Enterprise Edition so I don't think we can apply it. I've opened a SAR with Oracle but they so far do not have a solution.
Does anyone know of a solution for this problem? Also, is there a way to use a template for the HTML body and another template in the same email to produce a PDF attachment. We're concerned that rendering the shipping label in HTML may cause it to not format properly when printed by end users in the field.
I can't imagine that what we're trying to do is that out of the ordinary...
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I have searched all over the net and I know it is probably an issue or setting with Outlook but though somebody may have seen this or at least know what is going on.
The email is sent but is just a link / attachment for Outlook users in the email body - no text etc. They have to open it up. Asked them to check for HTML settings.
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I see those html emails with the colours and the embedded images and links to the website. The programming doesn't seem tough but I don't know how to create them and then how to send them.
I use Entourage for email but am not married to it, and wondered if anyone had any resources. I'm looking to do a newsletter style email (images links to site, etc.), not that different from an eVite, but I've not heard of anyway to create them.
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enzosf

The way you do this currently is to create your web
page, open it with Tiger Safari, and use the menu
item for emailing the contents. However you may need
to put your page on a server and I think pages
created with iWeb may not work that well -- you would
need to experiment.
I just did this both ways. Creating an email from an iWeb site hosted on the internet worked OK... but didn't pick up the background graphic, tiled.... maybe I just didn't wait long enough! (Ha!)
And I did it from the local files on my computer, (Publish to Folder), and it worked much better, picking up the background immediately.
So....open the page you want (index.html) in Safari>File>Mail Contents of this Page.
Would work GREAT just for doing an email Newsletter with Graphics and such!
Bill

Creating html email with apple's mail

How do i get an html page (created in Dreamweaver) to show up in apple's mail window?
I want the html page to display. If I just attach the html file all I get is an icon of the file not the look of the html file (ie with background color and placed photo and html text). I know to have the placed image with an absolute reference (ie. http://www.whatever.com/image.jpg)

Tiger Mail uses Apple's new WebKit authoring engine, creating complex HTML email messages with Mail's trademark simplicity. However, most of the power of that engine is inaccessible. Aside from the addition of an "Add Hyperlink…" menu item, Mail's composition window offers no better text or layout controls than 10.0's Mail did in 2001.
Tiger was replaced by Leopard last October, and Leopard Mail has a new feature called Stationery which might provide some of what you are talking about:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/mail.html

Create HTML email

Hi people,
I would like to create an email with a formatted body in HTML (with a table).
The body has a lot of tables. Each table was a background color in header and another background color in the other lines.
Is there a simple way to do this?
Thank you!
Cristiana

Small tip -:)
DATA: CR TYPE X VALUE 13. "For ABAP break line...
DATA: MESSAGE(500) TYPE C.
CONCATENATE '<HTML>' CR '<BODY>' CR
'<H1>Test message!</H1>'
CR '</BODY>' CR '</HTML>'
INTO MESSAGE.
Greetings,
Blag.
Message was edited by:
Alvaro Tejada Galindo

Copy an email manually from Outlook 2003 SP3 to Tour 9630

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I purchased and downloaded eMailchemy from WeirdKid Software and it worked great. It is a native Mac application that converted some 85,000 emails along with attachments and entire mailbox hierarchy intact from Outlook 2003 for Windows .pst format stored on my Mac into archive mail files for Entourage for Mac. This was exactly what I needed and well worth the $28.00 to get it done right the first time, even if I don't need the software anymore.
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