I would like to set up a simple, single page e-letter that I can mail out using Entourage.
As I want it to be similar in appearance to the website (created in Freeway), it makes sense to make the mail-out in the same program and use existing artwork.
Is there a straight forward way to do this?
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I’m pretty sure you could find some step by step instructions on this if you use the search function on this site and search for “html email”.
A couple of things to remember; design the email page with the CSS button off, and the email newsletter page has to be uploaded on to a server. Also, from what I’ve been able to figure out, the easiest way to do it is to open the page (after uploading it) in Safari and then select, File → Mail contents of this page, which will then open Mail, and your page will be ready to email. From there you might have to forward the email back to yourself to get it to your Entourage account. Or maybe there is a way around all of that to get the page directly into Entourage.
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Rich,
Many thanks for that - I’ll follow your advice.
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We’ve done this “manually” in the past. You probably need the Remote Resources Action. Mail programs don’t like relative paths and this action makes them absolute.
Then we preview in browser, View Source, copy all the code. Then in Thunderbird, start an e-mail and go to Insert>html and paste.
Like I said, that’s a manual way. Not sure if there’s a more automatic way for bulk e-mailers.
Bob
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My broadband has been down, thanks to my local exchange having
problems, so I’m just catching up on this thread. Have a look at:
It may not be quite what you want, but I recently did a test for a
client and it fetched down a standard page from a Freeway produced web
site and turned it into an HTML e-mail ready to go. All I had to do
was provide the mail list detail. (In practice I would still design a
special page with appropriate content, of course). A colleague of mine
has used it successfully a few times and it has good preview tools.
Colin
On 4 Sep 2009, at 16:30, Robert Bovasso wrote:
We’ve done this “manually” in the past. You probably need the Remote
Resources Action. Mail programs don’t like relative paths and this
action makes them absolute.Then we preview in browser, View Source, copy all the code. Then in
Thunderbird, start an e-mail and go to Insert>html and paste.Like I said, that’s a manual way. Not sure if there’s a more
automatic way for bulk e-mailers.Bob
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Wow, this forum is great…
Thanks for choice of options - I’m not web-savvy (in fact I’m pretty much ‘code-blind’ which is why I opted for Freeway) but as a graphic designer I’m getting more and more demand for work using this medium - meaning I need all the help I can get.
So, cheers, this feedback is spot-on!
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Mailchimp gets my vote as well. I like their tracking tools.
MArcel
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MailChimp saves many headaches and are quite generous with technical information.
Campaign Monitor is also very slick and worth a look and also provide plenty of info.
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