Seph's back...HTML emails?
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- Seph
About 4 months ago I stopped mucking around so much on NT and decided to concentrate on getting skill to pay the bills. This is my first topic in ages !
One of these skills involves creating rich content HTML emails.
For years I have found the most reliable way to create these was (believe it or not) in Netscape Communicator 4.7. It has a built in Composer that creates very crude, very basic HTML that seems to work with most email clients.
However I'm looking for some new angles, has anyone seen or recieved any rich content emails that have blown them away? For example embedded flash that actually works on more than 5% of email clients, or some way of getting CSS working nicely or animations to work reliably? Just something new and fresh, know what I mean?
Let me know.
Thanks.
- zaven0
hi seph! how is going? still in italy?
back to the topic I recive the newsletter from domus magazine that are pretty nice, nothing special but they works fine...
I can forward you one if interested
http://www.domusweb.itand apple's one are nice, I dont know if they only work on mac..
- Seph0
Thanks Zaven, yep still here, still earning peanuts, but life is good.
I will check out the Domusweb emails, did you do the site BTW?
- enobrev0
i've always found that using html 3.2 is the best solution and works for jsut about anything. T ogo along wiht that, if you use one of those browser based WYSIWYG textarea replacements, (on ie pc), they generate html3.2 code for you which works well.
I've ween xhtml /css work fine for outlook, outlook express, hotmail and yahoo. You just need to be sure to use local styles instead of a linked sheet.
sitepoints look really good, and viewing the source, it seems they use html 3.2 with a comment up top for text based browsers.
Also, most pop3 clients can read multipart emails. For clients, I usually create an email form with both the WYSIWYG form as well as an ascii only form and send them both in a multipart email so everyone gets the full message formatted according ot their email client, which has worked very well thus far.
good luck!
- zaven0
you mean the domus website?
no i dindt...but I would like to be publish on that magazine... ;)
- Seph0
Wow Enobrev your my hero.
Just need you to clarify a couple of things.What exactly are "...those browser based WYSIWYG textarea replacements, (on ie pc)..."
any links for more info?
Exactly how do you send a multipart emails?
Thanks a lot.
- enobrev0
WYSIWYG textarea (free):
http://www.interactivetools.com/…Multipart mail can be a lil more tricky. I found this which can probably get you started though. (I use php, btw - so results may vary depending on what you have available to you):
http://www.zend.com/zend/trick/h…
- unfittoprint0
Flash is still a no-no [due to ActiveX issues], and CSS is only accepted by some few SMTP/POP email clients.
Basic HTML, Gif's & Jpeg's are still your best friend.
- highrise0
flash works well in outlook pc if you don't have higher security settings. I love flash emails. see: http://www.highrisedesign.com/ma…
- JazX0
there are multiple threads on this, use the DB :)