HTML Email templates
I'm trying to find out how I can lock my page content and
images in my HTML emails I'm creating. It seems when I create these
emails for advertising and some one forwards it everything breaks
apart. Also, for some reason Microsoft Office 2007 doesn't hold
these HTML emails together either.
Any help? Thank you.
> some one forwards it everything breaks apart.
Yep - that's how it works....
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> I'm trying to find out how I can lock my page content
and images in my
> HTML
> emails I'm creating. It seems when I create these emails
for advertising
> and
> some one forwards it everything breaks apart. Also, for
some reason
> Microsoft
> Office 2007 doesn't hold these HTML emails together
either.
>
> Any help? Thank you.
>
>
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> e-mail to contacts that announce our new company and
website location, as
> well
> as links to the website so that they can register for
courses.
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> Is Dreamweaver the best program to do this? Any advice
on do's and
> don'ts? A
> link on getting started with HTML emails for marketing
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> appreciated.
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How it's supposed to show up:
How it's showing up in Gmail (Incorrectly! All the copy should be within the white box.):
Screencap from DW:
So, is it CSS causing this? Are the Tables setup incorrectly? Something not Inline? Not enough info for you? Gmail HATES ME?!
I'm just not seeing it and need to put the question out there while I continue to search for an anwer. Please respond!
Thanks!Many mail clients reject images, JavaScript and embedded CSS styles. For best results use plain text near the top to communicate your message and give a link to the actual web page on your server.
For mail clients that do have limited support for HTML, use uncomplicated tables and inline CSS rules (inside the body tag).
All that meta data description is a red flag to spam filters. You shouldn't be using meta description or keywords in e-mails.
The article below has some good tips & resources for reliable e-mail templates you could use:
http://alt-web.com/Articles/HTML-Emails.shtml
Nancy O. -
Problem with links on email templates
Problem with links on email templates
Hi,
We have been having issues with links on our email templates. Some of the links point to the following URL:
http://server'sname/thirdparty/FCKeditor/editor/fckeditor.html?InstanceName=emailTemplatesDTO.htmlBody&Toolbar=NewscaleFCKEditorToolBar#URL
Sometimes we get “Unknown internal error” on the web page.
Can anyone help or advise on how to resolve this issue?
Many thanks,
Wesley.Hi Wesley,
This is rather late, but we've seen the same thing frequently (and I believe can replicate it). It's caused when you a creating a new email by copying the content of an existing one with a name space in it.
Upon copying, the link gets scrambled. The approach we use is to copy the email in to a new template, then strip out all of the URL links and add them back in.
Thanks!
Ant -
Why does my email template appear differently in various email programs?
I have created a CSS-style based email template using Dreamweaver CS6. The template looks great within Dreamweaver, on Internet Explorer and in Outlook 2003. However, when viewed in Outlook 2010, Hotmail and Gmail, the template is distorted. If I set my containers using pixel size, why would it be different when viewed in other email programs?
Here is my code:
<style type="text/css">
.pageborder {
width: 795px;
height: 995px;
border: medium solid #008478;
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-size: 10pt;
margin: 0 auto;
.prodboxleft {
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-size: 10pt;
background-color: #76c6be;
width: 370px;
float: left;
height: 164px;
border: medium dashed #008478;
margin-top: 5px;
margin-bottom: 5px;
margin-left: 12px;
.prodboxright {
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-size: 10pt;
background-color: #76c6be;
width: 370px;
float: right;
height: 164px;
border: medium dashed #008478;
margin-top: 5px;
margin-right: 12px;
margin-bottom: 5px;
.clearing {
clear:both;
display:block;
visibility:hidden;
.pageborder .prodboxleft img {
padding: 8px;
.pageborder .prodboxright a img {
padding: 8px;
</style>
</head>
<body>
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And here is a screen shot of the different results:If email marketing is new to you, the below links are a good starting point for how to go about getting a good-looking and consistent design.
http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/common-html-email-coding-mistakes
http://24ways.org/2009/rock-solid-html-emails/
http://htmlemailboilerplate.com/
The boilerplate is good for reference but in my opinion is overkill for most email campaigns. It does a good job of highlighting why they do certain things though.
Rik -
Hi,
I have a new requirement that the standard text mail should be sent out as an HTML Email.
I was thinking of a HTML template which would have "customized tags" which I can replace at run time based on the data from some datasource.
The Email Template should look like:
Dear {FirstName} {LastName},
{Section1}
{Section2}
Thanks and regards,
{SenderName}
The tags between '{}' would be replaced dynamically based on the database values. I have the existsing program running within an EJB. I need to store the HTML content in some place [preferablly deployment descriptors] and then lookup at the information at run time, replace and send email. I am not able to have HTML characters within ejb-jar.xml.
This is one idea. I also though of having a properties file or a local system file to get the data. I am not convinced with these ideas.
Are there any other better approach for this situation?
Kindly advice.
Thanks and regards,
Pazhanikanthan. PHave a look at:
http://jcake.com/jcake-mx-intro.php and http://jcake.com/products.php#jcake-mx-template
It is a ready to use solution for your case.
Piotr Maj
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