Email Newsletter in Dreamwearver

Hello There,
I want to create an email newsletter in Dreamweaver CS3 using
tables, CSS, etc. Having trouble. Any sage advice?
Thank you!
d

Trying it, but I am a designer not a developer and cannot
find a simple answer on that site. Basically, I want to layout my
email using tables in Dreamweaver and give it to a client in a
format usable by their email systems. I have the design, do I paste
the code into (mac) Mail? Tried Entourage and it doesn't render. I
want to test it by sending it to myself. How do I "load" the code
into a mail program? Trying my best to phrase the question.
Thanks to anyone who can help!
d

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Bulk upload into an existing email newsletter database

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I would like to do a bulk upload into an existing email newsletter database.
When I export the database that I want to update, the file format is:
Full Name | Email Address | Opt-in Status | Subscribe date
However, the file format of the entities basic import file is:
Email Address
Title
First Name
Last Name
Company Name
Custom Date
Which one should I use?
Thanks for your help.

Hi Christina,
You need to use the file format of the import file, always.
Otherwise you'll end up with customers that have email addresses as name and names as email addresses.
Let me know if you run into any issues.
Thanks and regards,
Florin

Email newsletter - whats the best package to create it in?

I am looking for a bit of advice on what would be the best package to create an email newsletter in?
Im new to all this stuff, have a very limited knowledge of marketing and newsletter stuff.
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Any help would be appreciated.
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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*"
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>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>> Use CSS, but put it between <body> and
</body>.
>>>>
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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?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

Email newsletter? format help...

hey there,
i'm trying to send an html document via email to a client,
but when i run my tests to my own email (aol account) it always
adds it as a 'side' attachment giving you options to 'view',
'download', or 'save to desktop'. What i want is the html document
to show up IN the email as a viewable piece, not a side thought.
How do I make this happen? Is this done by changing settings in
email, changing the way i attach when i send, or changing something
about my code in dreamweaver? please help..thx...
chq1211
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> hey there,
>
> i just finished a html document in Dreamweaver and I
saved it. I emailed a
> copy of it to myself to see how it came out, but there's
a couple
> problems.
> First of all, it's meant to be like a email newsletter,
so i wanted it
> show up
> as something you could see 'within' the email, but
instead, it came out as
> an
> option to 'view' or 'download' it. also, when i did go
ahead and choose to
> view
> it, all the images were 'x''d out and blank. it showed
the boxes, but not
> the
> images. same thing when i downloaded it and viewed it.
How do i change
> these
> two factors? i'd like the page to be viewable inside the
email as well as
> displaying the images. is it an issue of saving it a
certain way or
> something?
> if someone with more knowledge on this topic could help
me, that'd be
> great..thanks
>
> chq1211
>

Email newsletter/ezine templates

Does anyone have experience with designing html email
newsletter or ezine templates?
Since you don't include a css file or header info, how do you
set the link colors?

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that means that
I mark everything up exactly according to the type of content
being
displayed. That means if I have a heading, I use an
<h1> or <h2> (etc) tag
instead of a <p> that is styled with CSS; if I have a
new paragraph, I use a
<p> tag, not a couple <br> tags; and so on...
this means that in the event a
recipient is using gmail (we'll use that client for these
purposes) then the
email degrades well. In other words, it does not necessarily
appear the way
I intend, but the email will appear as readable as can be
hoped.
I also make sure (whenever possible) that the content appears
in the HTML in
the order I wish it to display. For example, I would never
put the sign-off
("Thanks for reading this email, bye") at the top of my
markup and then use
CSS to make it appear at teh bottom; if i do and the CSS is
not supported,
then the email will start "Thanks for reading this email,
bye"
Remember though, I still include CSS to style my emails - I
just have to
consider what happens when CSS is removed or (more complexly)
partially
supported. Hotmail (livemail) for instance does not fully
support "float" so
I have to expect that any content i tried to float will now
appear as a
block level element. May not look AS good, but if I design
correctly, it
still looks acceptable (acceptable = easily readable +
organized)
For some more good advice, check
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/archives/2007/04/a_guide_to_css_support_in_emai_2.html
Alex

Needing email/newsletter Service in addition to Contact Page

Can your please recommend a good, compatable third party email/newsletter service that interfaces with Muse contact forms? Any free? Any Adobe stuff??? I need ASAP...

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Email newsletter manager in iWeb?

Does anyone know of a way to integrate an email newsletter manager into iWeb? I'd like one that is free, if possible. I've found phplist, which a friend uses, but I don't even know which version to download. It looks pretty intimidating. My friend paid someone to put it in her site, but I don't have $400 which is what he would charge me. He said it would work on a Mac.
Here is the link to phplist:
http://www.phplist.com/download
Once I've downloaded it, how do I integrate something like that into iWeb?
I realize that this is a complicated question. I will appreciate any guidance you can give me. Thanks!
Satya

Hi,
no problem, I'm still here
1. Register to Bravenet
2. Register for the MailingList
3. Under Web Tools => Registered Web Tools, click on mailing list
4. Under utilities you have "Copy-paste code" click and then copy the code
5. Go to iWeb and paste the code into an html snippet on any page you'd like to have it to appear. (Go to the end of the page post for html in iWeb '06). As soon as you click apply you will see the field.
See how it looks here:
http://alyeska.altervista.org/test/Welcome/Blank_3.html
(just a website for testing so it will not stay on server for ever)
Now people can subscribe to your newsletter.
For sending Newsletters go to your Bravenet account and select "Send plain text" or "Build/send HTML" where you can play around and customize your newsletter for having it to show how you want.
On your Bravenet account you will be able to see who joined your mailinglist and so on.
PS: you don't have to leave your hosting to get a counter on your website... You can use Bravenet's counter or better have a look at this:
http://alyeska.altervista.org/en/iWeb_Statcounter.html
(this page will soon be updated with a freeware alternative to iComment you can find here http://guimkie.com/projects/iwebexpander )
Bravenet offers a lot of useful other stuff like guestbooks, polls, and so on (the only downside is that they include Ads on their free stuff). I actually don't use anything of Bravenet myself but I used to some time ago.
Regards and welcome back from traveling around the world, hope you enjoyed the journey
Cédric
PPS: I just noticed this is posted to iWeb '06 so there are no HTML snippets in there. Here's a freeware app do add html in iWeb '06 http://guimkie.com/projects/iweb/basic-html-editing-with-iweb/

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.
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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/
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I'm total newb to Fireworks (but have extensive print design experience) so apologies if this is a silly question. I am required to produce an email newsletter and am using the exercise as a way of introducing myself to FW and DW and web design. My idea of the easiest way to do this (for me) was to produce something I could get into Safari and then use it's (nifty) Mail Contents of this Page… command to create the email in Mail Application.
If I import the content to FireWorks, it previews in Safari AoK but when I use Mail Contents of this Page… I get an email message full of image placemarkers with question marks in them (plugin style icons).
I know this feature (Mail Contents of this Page…) works for a lot of content I've tried it with including Dreamweaver content. I've tried a dozen or so work flows including exporting HTML and images from FW and opening that in Safari.
My workflow was InDesign --> export as flattened PDF (with layers) --> open in Photoshop and cut into individual images and Save for Web… --> import images from PS or whole flattened PDF direct to FW --> make slices over images (almost all the text is in spec fonts so is rendered out as images)
Any ideas for a sure-Fire(works) workflow to produce a glossy (X)HTML newsletter?
Any idea why the export from FW looks good in Safari but fails as a Mac Mail HTML message?
For now I'm emailing a link to the online PDF to ship on time but I very much wish to master HTML emails and an efficient workflow.
Cheers and thanks in advance.

Fireworks is not an HTML authoring environment. Let me repeat that. Fireworks is not an HTML authoring environment!
The HTML export feature of Fireworks is so that you can produce a mockup of a Web design for approvals and such. The HTML is not robust. Couple that with the problem that email clients support a limited set of HTML and CSS and you have a recipe for disaster. When you write HTML newsletters you need to go about them in a slightly different way. But you still need to know your HTML.
HTML newsletters are tricky things. You can't expect a graphics program to produce something that's going to work. You can use Fireworks to design your newsletter. You can slice the design and export the items that will be graphics. But then, you should use Dreamweaver or a plain old text editor to write the HTML and CSS that will work well for email clients.
There are two HTML mailing services that also have lots of info on writing HTML newsletters. Check out the info they have on best practices and the limitations in clients:
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MailChimp: http://www.mailchimp.com/articles/

Photoshop File for Email Newsletter

I have an email newsletter format designed in Photoshop. I
would like to all dynamic, intra-email links to jump to articles
lower in the email and navigate throughout the email. Is
Dreamsweaver an easy way to do this? Can I pull the .jpg file into
Dreamsweaver and place these links, or how is it done?
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[email protected]

save yourself a lot of aggravation and use on the templates
at www.mailchimp.com

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Hi,
I have been battling between creating a mass email/newsletter
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time the latter is the better option. I have been searching the net
for some solutions and came across Mailbuild and 2simplifi (Email
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If so, what are the steps?
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Make your signature text only, see if that makes a difference.

Email newsletter format not working in my email...

hey there,
i'm trying to send an html document via email to a client,
but when i run my tests to my own email (aol account) it always
adds it as a 'side' attachment giving you options to 'view',
'download', or 'save to desktop'. What i want is the html document
to show up IN the email as a viewable piece, not a side thought.
How do I make this happen? Is this done by changing settings in
email, changing the way i attach when i send, or changing something
about my code in dreamweaver? please help..thx...
chq1211

http://www.anandgraves.com/html-email-guide#unnecessary_htmltags
http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/content/2004/11/11/09.27.00/
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"chal7ds" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:fn89ko$3fc$[email protected]..
> hey there,
>
> i just finished a html document in Dreamweaver and I
saved it. I emailed a
> copy of it to myself to see how it came out, but there's
a couple
> problems.
> First of all, it's meant to be like a email newsletter,
so i wanted it
> show up
> as something you could see 'within' the email, but
instead, it came out as
> an
> option to 'view' or 'download' it. also, when i did go
ahead and choose to
> view
> it, all the images were 'x''d out and blank. it showed
the boxes, but not
> the
> images. same thing when i downloaded it and viewed it.
How do i change
> these
> two factors? i'd like the page to be viewable inside the
email as well as
> displaying the images. is it an issue of saving it a
certain way or
> something?
> if someone with more knowledge on this topic could help
me, that'd be
> great..thanks
>
> chq1211
>

Email newsletter styles

I don't want to use the styles in Dreamweaver for text etc.
in an email newsletter as styles don't always work.
However but when I work in the "design" mode the styles are
created automatically. How do I turn this off. Even if I select
"none' the styles are created automatically.

CPG dreamer,
> I don't want to use the styles in Dreamweaver for text
etc. in an email
> newsletter as styles don't always work.
>
> However but when I work in the "design" mode the styles
are created
> automatically. How do I turn this off. Even if I select
"none' the styles are
> created automatically.
Which version of DW are you using?
In CS4, you can set the Target Rule to be Inline CSS in the
PI CSS tab.
In CS3 and earlier, turn OFF "Use CSS instead of HTML" in the
Preferences General category.
HTH,
Randy

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