html email
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- legspin
I'm producing an html email which the client wants to be able to type in his own text whenever. How do you do this without using dreamweaver etc? I've never produced an html email before and I'm not sure how the whole thing works.
Is there a way of having a template he can open up in outlook and then edit his text from there???
Any clues???
- k0na_an0k0
if you do it in dreamweaver just add in comments where he should enter in his text. design the page and he can then open it later in notepad and add the text in the the spaces.
just hope he doesn't f-up the layout.
- ********0
another instance of where QBN should make this a blue thread, for the 50th time. ;)
- radar0
Search the PVN.
- legspin0
Yeah thought of that but he wants to be able to open up a template in outlook and be able to edit/input his text and send it like a normal email.
Can this be done?
How are html emails sent?
- normal0
Those pesky clients, wanting the world and not having a clue what to do with it when you give it to them.
- airey0
to my knowledge you can't send HTML emails from outlook. you may be able to forward one on and that may work but that's it. It's all due to the file type info in the header block of the email that you can't actually alter in outlook. the easiest method is to send it via I.E. (PC only) and let the client alter the txt as previously mentioned by others in this thread, or set it up to be Contribute FTP enabled.
the best way would be to set up a template in a 3rd party app similar to www.puremailer.com and the client can do what they like then (it's about $50 a month)
you can also be restricted by how many emails can be sent at a time on a normal email account (anti-spam setups).
it's not as easy as clients would believe unfortunately.
- ********0
for the love of my buttered arse, how much more difficult can it get?
make him/her a dinky wee php page where he/she can enter the editableshite™ and give him her instructions on how to File>send the resulting page.
You are very welcome
- Pixter0
warning about my english: good reading, bad writing, but lets go.
Put your html on outlook express (u can paste it in edit sourcecode mode); save as a ".eml" file. Make sure your images are url absolute.
So he can edit the text in outlook and send.
Outlook will fuck with the code, but still work.