I want email recipients to be able to immediately view the HTML when the email is opened AND be able to “click” on the “Subscribe” button that links them to our subscription page.
I’ve tried doing research online, but can’t seem to figure it out. Your help would be greatly appreciated.
Make sure that any links in your mail page are full external links
(http:// + domain + page) rather than Freeway’s normal relative links
(just the page name) and you should be fine.
Walter
On Jul 2, 2008, at 1:44 PM, Janel wrote:
Hi, I’m trying to create an HTML Email. I have created a FW HTML
file and have placed it on my server:
If you are going to send this to a mass audience you might want to look into a mailing software that allows you to use your FW HTML page. The article referenced above is if you are only sending to a small amount of people or if you have LOT OF TIME on your hands. I use Atomic Mail Sender.
Creating a HTML Emailer with Freeway and sending it out using Mail.app
There are a couple of things to make sure
Make sure you are running Mac OSX Tiger (minimum)
That Mail.app is your Default Email Reader (you can make sure by adjusting this in: Mail / preference, general
Step 1: Create your email/html document in Freeway and include all styling within the html ouput (NO external style sheet) and ideally dont use css as the layout method so turn the blue button off then publish
Step 2: Upload it to a server, this is were the actual images are going to be stored If your emailer contains no images then this isn’t necessary
Step 3: Launch Mailer.app and Safari
Step 4: Open your newly up loaded page in Safari
Step 4: Press Apple(Cmd)-i Now your Newly created HTML Email will open as a new email within Mail app
You will need to do a little experimenting to make sure your email looks correct on all email software platforms. all links should work unless they are drop-downs or ordered lists that’s it!!!
I hope this helps people if you want to test this go to my sites home page
I tried emailing your page to myself and while it looked fine in my email app the link to your subscription page at PayPal wasn’t correct in that it didn’t pass the hidden values only the address below so didn’t take me to the payment page.
MailChimp is worth having a look at if not for their services then just for their excellent ‘Free email marketing guide’.
They also free and tested email templates for download but these are for not for Freeway (sorry hand-coding required).
Worth looking at to see how they go about it.
My mailing list is about 200, and I found that by breaking it into
chunks in Address Book and labeling it List 1, List 2, List 3, that it
only takes three times to mail out the whole bunch in Mail app. With
a larger number, I would break it into smaller alphabetical chunks.
Works for me.
Vicki
On Jul 2, 2008, at 12:44 PM, Ken Delaney wrote:
If you are going to send this to a mass audience you might want to
look into a mailing software that allows you to use your FW HTML
page. The article referenced above is if you are only sending to a
small amount of people or if you have LOT OF TIME on your hands. I
use Atomic Mail Sender.