Is there a way to create an email news letter in XWAY? Have a small mailing list and don’t want to use Mail Chimp. I have Mail Designer Pro 2 but this has been crippled so no longer exports. I also have the latest DreamWeaver CS but it’s a dog to use.
What extra code has to be embedded into an XWAY generated page that allows it to be emailed and how would you embed it?
Thanks in advance
Hi Simon,
I think that email newsletters typically use table layout rather than CSS layout. I remember that this was the case 10 years ago, and the HTML emails that I’ve looked at today (from Apple, Macworld, etc.) still use tables.
Freeway was originally designed to create table layouts, so it could also be used to create HTML emails. Xway doesn’t support table layouts, although we plan to add support for tables in a future version.
Having said that, I think that if you avoid using advanced CSS layout techniques (such as Flexbox), and create a flexible web-page with relative-positioned container boxes and simple CSS styling, that would probably work. You would also need to avoid using pasted or local graphics, but you can use online graphics (“external” graphics in Xway).
To insert an external graphic, choose Insert Resource from the toolbar or Insert menu, and select “External”.
Does anyone else have experience in this area?
That’s really useful, I still have the last version of Freeway, if I can get it to work on y he latest OS, I may give it a try.
Freeway won’t run on any version of macOS after Mojave (10.14).
It’s possible to run Freeway in a virtual machine (e.g. Parallels Desktop) under Mojave if you have an Intel Mac. According to the Parallels: it isn’t possible to run Mojave in Parallels Desktop on an Apple Silicon machine.
[Mojave is the last version of macOS that can run 32-bit software. Freeway is 32-bit, and uses system frameworks that Apple discarded in later versions of macOS.]