html email tip?
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- jdcomba
My company has asked me to start doing mass html emails, any pointers, i've never done an html email, so i don't really know what i'm working with here.
- MrDinky0
dont send me one
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ok what are you looking for?
if you have done html emails than its no biggy..
make sure its complient on most of email client and web viewers
- jdcomba0
someone told me to try and build it in golive, someone told me to doit by hand, whats the best way so everyone can be happy.
- tkmeister0
be aware of CAN SPAM law. Civil penalties for violation of the law can run up to $1 million.
- jdcomba0
i don't know what that is, but my company has a mailing list which people signed up for and is totally ligit.
- MrDinky0
golive of hand .. its just html..
same deal..
make you test it before you send out
i sometimes see html email with html code .. some one forgot something
- jdcomba0
i need a sample or something.
- tkmeister0
you can do either handcoding or whatever the tool you use.
best way is to look at how some of mass email is done. sign up to some site and get an email from them.
how you gonna send it? do you have a mass emailing service provider or you gonna send it from outlook?
- liquid0
1) create the html page
2) take the images that are connected to the html file and CSS if necessary and upload it to a directory on the web server
3) change the hrefs in your html file to the directory online that you are pointing to (i.e. h t t p:// www.whatever.com/images/whatever…...use golive or dreamweaver to do a find and replace for all of the images. The best way to do it is make sure that when you set up the html file to put images in a separate dir... then find and replace for images/ with the actually location...
remember the href is not relative... you have to have an absolute url...
Then go into outlook....and setup stationery.... point to a file to use as stationery....find the html file.... click apply etc....
Then click new.... you should see the html email..... send it to another comp not your own...not a different email...to see what it looks like and make sure you changed all the image locations....
and then when you take the email addresses....make sure you put them in the BCC field......
- vwsung18t0
always have alt tags, no width and height on images, no image maps, have a link on the top to an html page on your company's site because lots of webmail clients have features disables images
- joyride0
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- jdcomba0
thanks liquid.
i'm doing it out of outlook.
- liquid0
;-) email me if you need any help...
- Luckypp0
I do this A LOT for my company and all the tips so far are great for Outlook and web mail readers. But if you have any Lotus Notes users, and there are tons out there, like 30-40% marketshare, use no images. Notes is so specific and customizable most all users will not see any images, or CSS as well, so if you want to go lowest common denominator, go all tags in the HTML and skip images.
- mijlee0
Got to be real careful what markup you use.
Wasn't so long ago that I would have said make sure your code is HTML 3.2, proper old school tables. It's a bit better now, but there is still no guarentee that an email client will have be able to understand stylesheets.
Also try and find a sytem that allows you to send multi part email. These include a text only version which Notes and other shit email clients can understand better.
- jdcomba0
ok, it's for a skate/snowboard shop. do you think it may be wise to do a text email with a flyer attatched? or is html a better way to go?
thanks
- skt0
Do a multi part: html for those that can, plain text for the rest.
Use tables, not css.
Use inline styles.
Lose any header information.
Don't use background images if you can help it.Thats about it I think, should work on most clients that way.
Oh and put a link to a web version, just in case users can get html mail but no images.