Jamie, you sure can use FW but I have found to use an online tool like MailChimp is much more convenient, plus they have some built in tools to track the emails you have sent and it also helps with you not being blacklisted as a spammer.
Hey Snapper,
I use freeway for making all my e-blasts and it works really well. just make sure you use absolute images links and you can copy and paste the html into whatever service you are using.
Can someone give me an idea about how I go about creating a html email.
The guy who will be sending the html letter out is using a pc system. But it would be good to know how to attach it to an email for testing purposes as well.
I do seem to have a few issues when mailing it out. Different browsers on the mac are laying the news letter out differently.
Safari looks fine, although the text in the second article down leaves a big space in the box
In Firefox a big gap appears between article 1 & 2
In Cameno again a gag appears between article 1 & 2, but not as big as in Firefox.
I have also sent the HTML email newsletter to a number of people on different PC email systems as described (cmd i to insert it into an email), How ever there are still some issues.
While laying the text out and previewing it, I ensured that I cmd +&-'ed it in Safari to allow for other browser.
I have been tolled that some of the people viewing it on pc email systems are having problems with the text falls out of the boxes. Plus some item appear differently to how their browser display the page
We use the Remote Resource Action and put very simple e-mail pages together. You’re might just have too much to it. Ours don’t use CSS for positioning, either, Just regular html boxes.
Looking at the source code for the page at the moment I can see that
there are couple of things that you’ll want to look at before sending
the e-mail out.
The other thing i would be inclined to change are the layers. A lot of
e-mail applications aren’t as clever as web browsers and won’t display
your layered items correctly. The London to Brighton text panel, for
example, is a layer. Uncheck the layer checkbox in the inspector
palette and Freeway will convert the layout to a more suitable table
based structure for you.
All the best,
Tim.
On 13 Nov 2009, at 17:09, Snapper wrote:
Thanks Robert
At the moment I am not aware that any of the images are missing.
Before I even try and look at the Resources Folder for pictures. I have looked at your comments regarding the LtoB text panel and un ticked the layer option.
This has now changed the shape of the picture (Shrunk the height) completely and has created breaks in the display box that surrounded the picture and text. I have since unchecked the picture as a layer which has now corrected that. The box panel still has breaks in the panel that I can not understand. It doesn’t show this in the Freeway page.
Hi all. I need to design an html email “flyer” for a client which I then will have to send it to their administrative person who sets up and sends the actual email blast. Once I design it, what do I do to get it over to him? I’ve been designing then saving and sending previous designs as jpegs for them to insert into email blasts. I want to create them as HTMLs now. Thank you.
You should be able to upload it to their server (they can supply you with FTP details if you don’t already have them). Create a folder called ‘mailshot’ or something of your choosing and then upload the email into there.
Then all you have to do is send them the URL. The mail service they use (maybe MailChimp or Campaign Monitor or similar) should import from that URL.
