I see in the instructions Softpress recommends a table based structure and not css, and also suggests using one’s existing website to place an email newletter page/resources.
The conflict I have is our website is CSS and in changing the email newsletter to table based, it changes all the pages in the website. Is there any work around to this?
Best suggestions/practices to making sure the email newletter is viewable in the maximum number of the various email clients out there?
The conflict I have is our website is CSS and in changing the email newsletter to table based, it changes all the pages in the website. Is there any work around to this?
You can construct a page with the CSS button off and everything you create after switching it off will be table based.
It will only affect other pages if you edit them with the button off. Switching it back on will revert the behaviour.
However you can create a new single page document and set it to upload into a sub folder of your main site and avoid any clash.
I would do this by firstly creating a new sub folder in the existing FW doc but leave it empty ie newsletter.
Then in a new Blank FW doc create your email stuff and make sure you choose a different site folder to publish into and also set your upload path to www.yoursite.com/newsletter
Now when you publish your email/newsletter page it will go in the subfolder and not affect any of the existing pages/document.
David, it looks like creating a separate site to make the email newsletter and then uploading it to the existing site, is perhaps safer practice, if I follow you on this? - Lewis
The thing is that Freeway will go out of its way to create only one copy of any given resource (images, etc). When you put a page in a sub-folder on your server, the resources for that page may come from above that folder level if you are using the same Freeway document to create both the folder and its content. When you create a separate document just for the subfolder, you guarantee that everything will be sourced from that one folder. It’s less likely to result in broken links in the mail message once it’s been converted by the Action or whatever sending software or service you choose.
Walter
On Sep 19, 2013, at 10:58 AM, Lewis wrote:
David, it looks like creating a separate site to make the email newsletter and then uploading it to the existing site, is perhaps safer practice, if I follow you on this? - Lewis