I’ve created a HTML email in Freeway and signed up to a pay-as-you-go service with MailChimp. I’ve done some tests and it is all working fine.
However, MailChimp automatically inserts a ‘footer’ at the bottom of my beautiful email saying “Sent to xxxxxx. Unsubscribe | Update Profile | Forward to a Friend”.
Can I paste MailChimp’s unsubscribe code into my Freeway file and style it so that it is integrated into the design? At the moment it looks horrible and is just bolted on to the end of the email.
You could very easily make a new unsubscribe link in your page, just
use the External side of the Hyperlink dialog, and enter their *|UNSUB|
template language as the link. The larger issue will be this: does
MailChimp offer an option in their template parser to not include this
link if it’s already present in your layout?
Also, what are you doing for text-only content? Does MailChip format
that for you, based on your content? Not everyone accepts (or can even
read) HTML mail. (Visually-disabled persons, for one large and
litigious example.)
Walter
On Oct 4, 2010, at 2:54 PM, Mark wrote:
Just realised the code I pasted in above has done something very
odd, the code is
a href=“|UNSUB|”>Remove me from this list</a
(with the first and last bracket removed so that it doesn’t show as
link in this forum)
How do I get this code into freeway and style it as I choose?
You could very easily make a new unsubscribe link in your page, just use the External side of the Hyperlink dialog, and enter their *|UNSUB| * template language as the link.
OK. In FW I’ve written some text saying “Remove me from this list”, highlighted it and gone to the ‘Edit Hyperlink’ window, and External. Now what do I do?
The larger issue will be this: does MailChimp offer an option in their template parser to not include this link if it’s already present in your layout?
I believe so, or they wouldn’t offer the code to add to the HTML email.
Also, what are you doing for text-only content? Does MailChip format that for you, based on your content? Not everyone accepts (or can even read) HTML mail. (Visually-disabled persons, for one large and litigious example.)
Not sure. MailChimp can do what it likes with the text-only, as long as the HTML email works I’m happy. I’ll look into it.
OK. In FW I’ve written some text saying “Remove me from this list”,
highlighted it and gone to the ‘Edit Hyperlink’ window, and
External. Now what do I do?
Paste |UNSUB| into the URL field and okay out of the dialog.
Not sure. MailChimp can do what it likes with the text-only, as long
as the HTML email works I’m happy. I’ll look into it.
You might want to re-think that approach if you ever do any work for
government or provide public information. It’s a pretty quick trip to
Federal court or the local equivalent. Some jurisdictions are
twitchier than others.
Hi Mark,
Yes, that should be it. MailChimp is doing a sort of mail merge on the
HTML (or plain text) when the email goes out and replaces this token
for the real hyperlink. Each unsubscribe link will be unique
(containing the recipient’s account details) so when clicked on
MailChimp knows who to unsubscribe.
Regards,
Tim.
Is this still relevant? I’m testdriving Mailchimp, and I see a fixed footer with unsubscribe text and several links that I cant control or customize. Even if a unsub token is applied to the mailbody itself.
Is this still relevant? I’m testdriving Mailchimp, and I see a fixed footer with unsubscribe text and several links that I cant control or customize. Even if a unsub token is applied to the mailbody itself.
I decided not to use MailChimp. I think I was uncomfortable about doing the above suggestions. I have been using Direct Mail by e3 Software instead.
It allows me to design the email as I want it: it doesn’t insert a footer. And it will import contacts from Apple Address Book - which for me was a big bonus. I can recommend it.
I use Mailchimp professionally, and you can style the footer from Mailchimp in the html to match your site, through the Mailchimp code view. It means some hand coding, but not much. Simple css and html position and colours.