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Creating a HTML Email and sending it out using Mail
[b:bff24e3e69]Creating a HTML Emailer with Freeway and sending it out using Mail.app[/b:bff24e3e69]
There are a couple of things to make sure b:bff24e3e69[/b:bff24e3e69] Make sure you are running Mac OSX Tiger b:bff24e3e69[/b:bff24e3e69] That Mail.app is your Default Email Reader (you can make sure by adjusting this in: Mail / preference, general
[color=darkred:bff24e3e69][b:bff24e3e69]Step 1[/b:bff24e3e69][/color:bff24e3e69] Create your email/html document in Freeway and include all styling within the html ouput (NO external style sheet) and publish [color=darkred:bff24e3e69][b:bff24e3e69]Step 2[/b:bff24e3e69][/color:bff24e3e69] Upload it to a server, this is were the actual images are going to be stored If your emailer contains no images then this isn’t necessary [color=darkred:bff24e3e69][b:bff24e3e69]Step 3[/b:bff24e3e69][/color:bff24e3e69] Launch Mailer.app and Safari [color=darkred:bff24e3e69][b:bff24e3e69]Step 3[/b:bff24e3e69][/color:bff24e3e69] Open your newly up loaded page in Safari [color=darkred:bff24e3e69][b:bff24e3e69]Step 4[/b:bff24e3e69][/color:bff24e3e69] Press Apple(Cmd)-i Now your Newly created HTML Email will open as a new email within Mail app
You will need to do a little experimenting to make sure your email looks correct on all email software platforms. all links should work unless they are drop-downs or ordered lists that’s it!!!
I hope this helps people if you want to test this go to my sites home page www.max-izzat.co.uk/index.html and use [color=darkred:bff24e3e69]Step 4[/color:bff24e3e69] then send the email to your self and once its sent and it returns just click allow images if they or the background don’t show up completely.
max
it’s better to be lucky than clever.. :o)
As a little side note I have discovered recently that the £ sign in an email that I sent in this way was omitted… I know its odd, in the end I ended up adjusting it on a pc just so I could get the £ symbol
it’s better to be lucky than clever.. :o)
Hi Max,
i did everything you ‘explained’. but still people who are still ( unbelieveble) on pc, can’t read my html email. now i realise explorer is not nice, but how did you solve that?? greetings Eus
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Hi Eus ummmmm .. :o)
Well I didn’t really have a problem with explorer apart from the pound sign, but things to check are…
first thing is did you construct the email in a freeway and was the CSS button turned off. As this will create the email with tables rather than div’s (layers)
Second: make sure external style sheet is turned off so all styles are within the HTML
and finally did you upload the html/images to a server, as this will be needed to hold the images, if you have done all these and it still doesn’t work you can always send me the freeway file and I can test it here.
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it’s better to be lucky than clever.. :o)
max, sorry that i did not answer sooner on your kind suggestion. i have been ill up and down (thats no english) and i have not been in html-email-land since. i will go into this subject soon, and may i than keep you up to your suggestions? greetings Eus
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